Power animals

When it’s protection that we seek, when it is darkness that we fear,
We can always call on them and be certain they’ll appear.
Without hesitation, and without any doubt,
They will come to our calling, and they will always help us out.

During any moment of need, when the world feels so cold,
When all answers seem lost, and we’ve lost our hold.
All we have to do is call them and they will appear
With solutions and answers. Our rescue is here.

They lend their help freely, ask for nothing in return
Save the one expectation to make sure that we learn.
That we learn to take care of us, that we learn to stand strong,
That we stay on our path as we move along.

We can call them our teachers, we can call them our guides,
For they bring us the answers to the mysteries of life.
We can call them our helpers. We can call them a friend.
They are the ones we can count on to always lend us a hand.

So here is to these animals whose power we may share.
To the big and the small ones, to the mouse and the bear.
To the wolf and the eagle and all in between
Who make our lives easier, much more than they seem.

Let us honor and cherish the one and the all.
Let us love and respect them from winter to fall.
Let us dance in their honor, so that we may become one.
Let us remember to praise them, even long after they’re gone.

Sabine Roesberry, 2007 – www.shamanshome.com