Lost -- Native American Song
Lost
(An answer to the question: What do I do when I am lost in the forest?)
Stand Still
The trees ahead
And bushes beside you are not lost
Where you are
Is called Here
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger
Must ask permission to know it
And be known
The forest breathes.
Listen.
It answers,
I have made this place around you
If you leave it,
You may come back again by saying
Here
No two branches are the same to Raven
No two trees are the same to Wren
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you
Then you are truly lost
Stand still
The forest knows where you are
And you must let it find you.
~ translation by David Wagoner ~
(From The Heart Aroused by David Whyte)
