Song of Gods and Mirrors (Higher Human)
My story song about finding my own god in myself, and in you :)
This is my song number 53 at alanchapman.com/music.
Song of Gods and Mirrors (Higher Human)
This is a ‘story song’ that I started to write on paper and to begin to play and sing, on 15 September 2022, helped by a message from my partner - from 1979-80 and 2015-ongoing - the magically transcendent Maria Hennings Hunt, and co-founder with me of LiveWildLiveFree.org.
This prompting and joyous triggering happened on a Saturday, when Maria messaged me “on the train back to the future” - which was her beautifully clever creative funny way of saying she was on the train, on her way to see the show ‘Back to The Future’.
My song is about looking for a God or god, and our meaning and who we are, and then eventually realising this is oneself - myself - seen in the mirror of my or our soul, after enduring and surviving my many explorations and traumas - we each have our stories - until one day, the student is ready, and the teacher (oneself) appears.
Here are the lyrics:
Song of Gods and Mirrors (Higher Human)
A higher human than free,
We are now rising to be,
I cheer for you and you cheer for me,
Now is our magic energy,
Back to the future now we see,
Back to the future come with me.
A long train running it’s the breeze,
A song playing beautiful to please,
We shake our hips and we be at ease,
We are the ships on the rolling seas.
Back to the future now we see,
Back to the future come with me.
Imagine you’re the mirror of your soul,
Reflecting that you are born whole,
Projecting light beyond what’s told,
Transcendent life from new and old.
Back to the future now we see,
Back to the future come with me.
We search for our gods and our belief,
Let go ourselves, let go of grief,
Come to a door, we have the key,
Open, there’s a mirror, there is me, and you.
Back to the future now we see,
Back to the future come with me.
The song lyrics feature on a wonderful poetry website called Dissident Voice, to whom I am immensely grateful:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/song-of-gods-and-mirrors-higher-human/
Life seems to be, among infinitely many other things, a series of stepping stones, including people, relationships and other connections, that give us hopes and dreams for whatever might come next, ion whatever ways we imagine human constructs such as time and space, and energies and realities - especially ourselves.
We are each on our own adventures, exploring who we are, at the level of our souls, which by implication is beyond language.
And so, music, poetry, dance and other high creative vibrations of human expression, and cooperation and community, make me smile, and thrill my heart.
Love is infinite. Creativity and adventure to the breathlessness of our being, seem to me also of infinite dimensions and wonder; and also potential, for our transcendence; to light from what otherwise prevent our growing and recovering.
We are always disintegrating and rebuilding, part of what we need not understand, and yet we can draw on these energies, to be part of the flow, and then to be the flow itself.
Dissident Voice describes itself as:
“Dissident Voice is an internet newsletter dedicated to challenging the distortions and lies of the corporate press and the privileged classes it serves. The goal of Dissident Voice is to provide hard hitting, thought provoking and even entertaining news and commentaries on politics and culture that can serve as ammunition in struggles for peace and social justice.”
I am as ever indescribably grateful to everyone who has helped me and who continues to help me rebuild my life, and to find my own god and peace within me.
Also to create my new work, purpose and meaning, and where, what, who and how in the world, and in this wonderful life, to be.
Thank you.
Alan :)