Eckhardt's Garden

Music & lyrics, 1997

Iʼm dreaming of Eckhardtʼs Garden
Tea with the Master of Silent Grace
Iʼve had a vision of Tenzin Gyatso
Surfing on the Internet of Inner Space

If you can see beyond
The masks we wear this lifetime
Have you seen where she has gone?
So many lifetimes

She is here, the feelingʼs clear
In dreams I sense her presence
A loverʼs sigh, across the years
I long for her touch essence

Iʼm dancing with Rumiʼs Dragons
The passions of the mystic heart take flight
Iʼm dreaming in a Jungian Circle
Archetypal dimensions of the Long Dark Night

If you can hear the songs
No earthly ear can hear
Please tell me if you hear her singing
She is my Song Weaver

If you can feel the music
Sky ecstasy dancing
Rhythm’s drummer, Psycheʼs story
She sings the Beginning

Touching oceans mind to mind
Shadows burning souls alight
Eye to eye our bodies moving
Slowly together

Saturn Narcissus — the past
Tomorrow — Aphrodite laughs
Arjuna knows the secret
Lifestreams flow on forever

The eternal perspective
Lovers remember
Ah kim!

Iʼm dancing with a monk named Rabelais
Robertson Davies buys a round
Paracelsus orders seltzer with a twist of lemon
Heraclitus integrates the distant sounds

In friendships see the dances
Of all embodied spirits
The constant play of chances
Creation’s life giving

Through lovers’ eyes we see
Gotamaʼs smile affection
A sacred love, Kundalini tree
She is my reflection

Iʼm hunting with Dianaʼs maidens
In a moonlit forest, autumn night
Iʼm feasting with Dionysius
Nietzsche’s in attendance serving wine

The play of opposites
This is the way of all things
The galaxies, the touch of starlight
All life revealing

Living hell: inertia, passion
Lucidityʼs the way of heaven
Her clarity, her open heart
She is my soulʼs haven

Touching oceans mind to mind
Shadows burning souls alight
Eye to eye our bodies moving
Slowly together

Saturn Narcissus — the past
Tomorrow — Aphrodite laughs
Arjuna knows the secret
Lifestreams flow on forever

The eternal perspective
Lovers remember
Ah kim!

Iʼm chanting with a choir of angels
We are dancing on a planet in the distant sky
Iʼm drumming in an African bardo
Resolution of the counterpoint in modern times

Eckhardtʼs Garden bright with moonlight
Her eyes spark recognition
Her touch: memories releasing
Her kiss: the transition

She takes my hand I follow
The starship leaves at sunset
Ships of light, light tomorrow
This timeless moment

Touching oceans mind to mind
Shadows burning souls alight
Eye to eye our bodies moving
Slowly together

Saturn Narcissus — the past
Tomorrow — Aphrodite laughs
Arjuna knows the secret
Lifestreams flow on forever

The eternal perspective
Lovers remember
Ah kim!

Life flows on forever
The eternal perspective
Lovers remember
Ah kim!

© Kirtland C. Peterson, 1997