A Blessing for this New Year

Beannacht from To Bless the Space between Us by John O'DonohueOn the day when the weight deadens  On your shoulders,And you stumble,May the clay danceTo balance you. And when your eyesFreeze behindThe gray windowAnd the ghost of lossGets into you,May a flock of colours,Indigo, red, greenAnd azure blue,Come to awaken in youA meadow of delight. When the canvas fraysIn the curragh of thoughtAnd a stain of oceanBlackens beneath you,May there come across the watersA path of yellow moonlightTo bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours,May the clarity of light be yours,May the fluency of the ocean be yours,May the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slowWind work these wordsOf love around you,And invisible cloakTo mind your life.