When I Was the Forest by Meister Eckhart

When I Was the Forest by Meister Eckhart

When I was the stream,

When I was the forest,

When I was still the field,

When I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing,

When I was the sky itself,

No one ever asked me did I have a purpose,

No one ever wondered was there anything I might need,

for there was nothing I could not love.

It was when I left all we once were that the agony began,

the fear and questions came, and I wept,

I wept.

And tears I had never known before.

So I returned to the river,

I returned to the mountains.

I asked for their hand in marriage again,

I begged - I begged to wed every object and creature.