Gift of a Dream

 The Gift of a Dream

Mother chicken, clucking, pecking

with 8 little peeping chicks

pecking around her,

hovering in her care.

What a world of adventure

for these fluffy little yellow babies,

with food, companionship and safety

as they shelter under the mother’s wings 

But one little chick

is outside the circle

excluded from the nest

pecking on her own.

I feel for that little chick,

and remember what it is like

to not be included,

shut out of the circle of love.

This lonely chick, in its solitary place,

looks up to see something miraculous.

Appearing from the sky

is a huge ethereal mother chicken

with wings spread broad and wide

swooping gently down to

enfold not only the solitary chick

but the mother hen and all her chicks.

When I wake up, I know I’ve been shown

something very important,  a cosmic truth:

we are never ever alone, we are always

under the care of a great mother,

whatever form it takes for each of us.