The dark inside us is sistered outside
in night which dislikes the light of the face
and the colours the eye longs to embrace.
Night adores the mountain, wrapped to itself,
a giant heart beating beneath rock and grass
and a mind stilled inside one, sure thought.
Something has broken inside this Spring night,
unconsolably its rain teems unseen
onto Gleninagh Mountain's listening depth.
Next morning the light is cleansed to behold
the glad milk of thirty streams pulse and spurt
out of unknown pores in the mountain's hold.
~ John O'Donohue
from Echoes of Memory
