Soul Invitation

By Casey Dunne

“Soul Invitation”

What if I invited you

To dance and laugh with the thunderstorm

On the edge of windswept bluffs

Under starry darkness in the slivers of moonlight?

What if I invited you

To paint in the present moment

With ink and colors of gemstones

On sheets of ancient trees?

What if I invited you

To feel the clay beneath your feet

As you stand on mountaintops

And let the sun burn your soul back into your flesh?

I invite you to love

To find deepest pleasure because you know pain

And chose not to fear it.

I invite you to believe

Something unfathomably wonderful waits

Around the curve of the river rapids.

I invite you to play

In the ocean foam and float beyond the horizon

Into the place where time folds in on itself.

What if I invited you

To learn the secrets of the desert ruins

Of fossils and bone shrouded in sands?

What if I invited you

To embrace all that you know and all you never will

As fuel for the fire in your belly?

What if I invited you

To heal collective wounds so that they bleed

Into new life in the cosmic womb?

I invite you to open

When it feels like you are breaking

And allow your soul to shatter its way home.

I invite you to create

From the place between worlds you’ve opened to

Making music out of shadows and light.

I invite you to live

With your feet rooted in mud

And your mind flying through pink clouds.

What if I invited you to be?