Look friends brothers sisters creatures there is something i want to share with you
on the occasion of this ceremony we do not discuss this enough
ceremony ritual and all of that we are all a bit lost
let us take a moment
if you leave this place with its pews and cruciform geometries
and come out to the churchyard and appraise the ancient twisting yew
treading carefully
and if you allow yourself into the ancient yew respectfully show some respect
ceremony is about respect and ceremony is about order imposing some order
on these messy proceedings we find ourselves in shaping it
into circles or crosses or pentagrams but some sort of shape
and a gift too please something beautiful does not have to be material
a sacrifice can take many forms
also some self restraint let us rein in our baser instincts thank you
we need some order can we have some order please
you see well maybe you will see we will see it is all part of the great cosmic order
the great cosmic order speaks to me sometimes it speaks through the yew
it may speak to you through the yew but you will have to allow it to be nice
i have learnt these things from many wisdoms and ceremonies they are all paths really
paths to the great cosmic order nobody owns the cosmic order it owns us
no all we can do is seek it jesus and me and the yew all the holy men and women
all the witches who lived at the edge of the village and drank from the sacred well
all the people who worked with the sacred plants and the sacred medicines
played the sacred music the rhythms and the chants you can call them shamans
they called me that the kids did seamus the shaman like it was fate it is all fate
all of this
by Seamus Wilson
