Aurora in the Meadow
I learned to grow
Where the winds are wild and the land is worn
Where the rivers cut the earth
Turn the soil to mud and clay
I learned to grow
I learned to walk
Reaching out a prairie mile and looking up
Stepping one foot then the other on the flatland's of my home
I learned to walk
I learned to look
To the earth the sky the spaces in between
To see the coming colors of the grass that's not yet green
I learned to look
Like aurora in the meadow we are tall
Beneath a thousand points of light I counted them all
Amidst the stir and wonder you found my hand to hold
And I found in your woolen coat a comfort from the cold
Onward to the mountains the mountains high
Where the land is brave and rough and lives in the sky
Where the one I love with their heart resides
Onward to the mountains
We raised our children in the valley
The rivers there run rich with polished stones
Between the river and the garden where your hands had built our home
We raised our children
Like aurora in the meadow we are tall
Beneath a thousand points of light I counted them all
Amidst the stir and wonder you found my hand to hold
And I found in your woolen coat a comfort from the cold
I learned to mourn
The losses of my life laid on the earth
Buried in the prairie soil that grass may grow anew
I learned to mourn
Like aurora in the meadow
Writer/s: Raine Hamilton