Third Shaman's Song

Into the great wilderness
Among the high mountains
Say prayers for the wild things
(Begin the counting)
Into the wilderness
Among the bare mountains
Into the emptiness
Into the desert
Pray in the wide night
Clasp hands and dance
Tarentella, vivace!
Twirl around in wild-joy
Clap hands and begin the singing

Cricket, child of the earth,
Scorpion, gray-dove,
Meet me at the meeting place
(There is no place at all
No place to hide nor rest
From the sun that reigns the heavens)
Mother Earth forgive me
I trample upon your breast
And kick the dust from your sleeves
Forgive me, weary traveller,
A mote upon your spine
Shrug and send me spinning
Headlong into space,

Into the Great Wilderness
Where there are no mountains.