Track #8 - Keep Left at the Fork
Leslie Hudson - piano, vocals, songwriter
(The Question) Someone appears to be listening. As I wonder what to ask I receive a message in the form of seven cards: the Lord of the Forest, the Magician, the Hero, the Leaving, the Maiden, the Star Faerie, and the Speaker of Truth. I look between and beneath and beyond them and see a sevenfold me, naked. Here, I am transparent and apparent in my worldly camouflage so I sing myself to life among the trees with gratitude. The ogham fid is Nin for clarity, connection, and the fork.
Lyrics
I’ve found it easy to blaze a trail
so easy I don’t always see what I’m blazing
forging ahead where others fail
turning the dream into making
and I make my own luck as I blaze along
with a glamour that rounds off the edges
a copperhead mistress of magic and song
look close and you’ll see where the edge is
if you ask who I am
I will ask you the same
and this isn’t only a Trickster’s game
for the Speaker of Truth
has the same to say
I am who you are today
I love with all that I am and more
ever the champion of vulnerable spaces
opening up to molten core
with the courage to love the dark places
but I’ll pick up and go when I feel it’s time
and I’ve gathered epiphanies brilliant and bruised
to muse as I wander in liminal rhyme
over all of the words I could choose
if you ask who I am
I will ask you the same
and this isn’t only a Trickster’s game
for the Speaker of Truth
has the same to say
I am who you are today
I am who you are today
the joy of the rain when it first fell down
love that begins to unfurl
life that’s been lived across sight and sound
accumulating the world
dust of the stars in our very skin
snowflakes all part of the snow
the web that connects every outside in
there’s more to the riddle you know
if you ask who I am
I will ask you the same
and this isn’t only a Trickster’s game
for the Speaker of Truth
has the same to say
I am who you are today
oh, I am who you are today
I am who you are today