Daily Meditation: Feeling Lost

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Today's meditation features a song by folk singer Sibylle Baier. With beautiful poetry, Baier describes the feeling of being lost and remembering a time or place that she can no longer access. In moments like this, where do you turn?

I Lost Something In The Hills by Sibylle Baier

Every time I shed tears

in the last past years

when I pass through the hills

Oh what images return

Oh I yearn

for the roots of the woods

that origin of all my strong and strange moods

I lost something in the hills

I grew up in declivities

others grow up in cities

where first love and soul takes rise

there where times in my life

when I felt mad and deprived

and only the slopes gave me hope

when I pass through the leg high grass I shall die

under the jasmine I shall die

under the elder tree

I need not prepare for a new coming day

where is it that fills the deepness I feel

You will say I'm not Robin the Hood

But how could I hide from top to foot

that I lost something in the hills

I lost something in the hills

Oh I lost something in the hills

Now I lean on my window sill

and I cry, though it's silly

and I'm dreaming of off and away

Oh I know further west these hills exist

marked by apple trees marked by a straight brook

that leads me wherever I want it to

well I lost something in the hills

I lost something in the hills

Oh I lost something in the hills.

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