Hymn+of+Osiris

Hymn of Osiris

"I have come home. I have entered humanhood, bound to rocks and plants, men and women, rivers and sky. I shall be with you in this and other worlds. When the cat arches in the doorway, think of me. I have sometimes been like that. When two men greet each other in the street, I am there speaking to you.

When you look up, know I am there - sun and moon pouring my love around you. All these things am I, portents, images, signs. Though apart, I am part of you. One of the million things in the universe, I am the universe, too. You think I disguise myself as rivers and trees simply to confuse you?

Whatever I am, woman, cat or lotus, the same god breathes in every body. You and I together are a single creation. Neither death nor spite nor fear nor ignorance stops my love for you. I sail a long river and row back again. It is joy to breathe under the stars. I am the sojourner destined to walk a thousand years until I arrive at myself.

Rise up, Osiris. You are inundation, you are living water, the oar that guides the barque, the delta created by flood. You are the parts of yourself come together. Your child Horus has made an end to your exile. Rise up like barley and nourish the people. ..

I am one of the great ones sitting in a field of barley. I eat and I am nourished. In turn I offer myself, the bread of air, the white spirit of fire. I am a falcon of gold.

I burn with a passion and lie still. I flare and smolder, live and die in a breath. I sail on gold wings that fan the blaze. I am consumed by fire. This is what I was born to: to live, to love, to know, to change and embrace the infinite. I shall not forget my becoming."

Hymns of Osiris