Four Winds

1980

Four Winds

1980

The heart has its four winds

And feeling is one

As the East wind brings rain

Blows a while but gives none

The North wind brings dreams

And puts frost in the heart

And the dark night unending

And death has its part

In the howl of the north wind

The power of the gale

The heart turns a season

And the West fills the sail

But the heart has four winds

And it calls to the last

And the South sends a fire

And an earth-shaking blast

Oh the heart has its four winds

And their time comes again

In this valley of sorrows

On Gaza's scarred plain