My Name
My name is a shriek echoing from the mountain tops
Through hollows in the trunks of cypress and mulberries
The crevices and caverns howl for the volition of the crops
For my mere sake clefts woo the soft crisp breeze
They harbor it and listen to it whistling my name
Into the ears of nightingales and cuckoos and city wire sparrows
Then from songbirds' mouths to rivers and springs spreads my fame And I scatter my secret to pebbles, dandelions and yarrows
I float buoyant all the way to the big ocean where I meet the iris
Of this earth's eye and wash my syllables in the foam
Only to be caught by the billow which lifts me up and hurries
And carries my name to the cities, delivering it from home to home
That all of humankind know my name
My name that shrieks from the mountains and howls from the trees Carried form fields to rivers to seas
For centuries until due time came
For all of humankind to know this name; my name
That fire may cease and all their ways of envy and strife
For my name is Life!