If you would rise, then rise like the dawn sky
golden light seeping into your dreams, molasses slow and syrupy sweet
dawn rises in your chest like summer
blowing copal scented breath into your lungs
And painting your eyes in amber and gold
If you would dance, then dance with the morning
Twirl with the barely visible spirits that dance in flickers of flame and foxfire
Sing with the birdsong that ripples across the sky
Tell your memories to the eastern winds, carrying the stories of dawn
If you must invoke, then invoke the knowledge of the Eastern wind
To the knowledge, that once learned, changes everything
Invoke the light that calls the seed to unfurl, the flower to unfurl
If you must pray, then pray the prayers of sunflowers
Feet planted in black earth and face ever following the light
If you would enchant, then start with longing,
Drown under the song of the sirens and let longing seep from your skin like perfume
If you would be cleansed, then come at dawn and listen
For the sunrise is the song that renews, and illuminates
And all shadows must fall away from its rays
Until the night settles her skirts over the earth again

- The Green Witch's Homestead