Who are you today?

A song to centre

Who are you today?
What does the mirror say
Who are you today?
What does the mirror say
Reach up and touch the sky
Who am I?
Who am I?
Reach up and touch the sky
Wonder why?
Eternal Eye

Who am I today?
What does my heartbeat say
Who am I today?
What does my heartbeat say
Reach down and touch the ground
Heart’s unbound
Heart’s unbound
Reach down and touch the ground
Centre found
Underground

Who are you today?
What does the mirror say
Who are you today?
What does the mirror say
Reach up and touch the sky
Who am I?
Who am I?
Reach up and touch the sky
Wonder why?
Eternal Eye

Who am I today?
What does my heartbeat say
Who am I today?
What does my heartbeat say
Reach down and touch the ground
Heart’s unbound
Heart’s unbound
Reach down and touch the ground
Centre found
Underground

Who are you today – song

© AM (Xander) Hunter January 2024

My Hallowed Guest

For Brandon

Come to the door my Hallowed Guest
But before you enter inside
Bring what you honour and leave the rest
You’re in for one Hell of a ride

To pass through a door seems an easy thing
One step, another, that’s all
To enter within you need to leave without
Remember it’s always your call

A threshold is crossed but not by a step
Don’t be fooled by your eyes
Heart through intention and action is best
You can’t move with falsehoods and lies

Don’t ignore what you promised my Hallowed Guest
And don’t take back whatever you gift
Deep consequence weaves and threads through it all
So beware that you do not drift

To step through to Darkness or step through to Light
Your hand is what’s holding the key
To dance through the roses is to Dance through the thorns
And both have great blessings for thee

So come and step through my Hallowed Guest
And as you walk through this door
Know if the crossing is easy then you never crossed
The threshold awaits nothing more

Song – My Hallowed Guest

© AM (Xander) Hunter 31 October 2023

Hear my Call

Floating through the silence
I call out to thee
Arms reaching widely
To hold you to me
I see you floating freely
Upon my sea of stars
Facing the blackness
That’s hiding our hearts.

I breathe and it moves me
I feel it flow through you
Even in this stillness
Between me and you
I call but you don’t hear me
You’re deaf, blind, and dumb
Ignite the flame within you
For I am that one.

Your flame smolders softly
And sparks you into life
You begin to move towards me
Awakened, alight
Body slowly forming
From the dust of my stars
Yet that ache continues
Your gaze lost and sparse.

My fingers reach out to you
I hold your hand in mine
Two becoming one again
Golden harp divine
Our hearts sing to each other
We are all and we are one
Blazing together
Brighter than the sun.

© AM (Xander) Hunter November 2023

Echoes from a song of Iron

Alien
This feeling
Of otherness
Separateness
Being torn
From some
Memory
Of union
Oneness
That was once
But is no more
It burns
To touch this
Stuff
That houses my
True Self
Such ugly layers
Thingness
Heavy
Dull
Each movement
Awkward
Uncomfortable
Unclean
This messiness
Is not me
It is my prison
Nothing more
The flow
So beautiful
Enticing
Haunting
Laughing at my
Misery
Thickness clogging
Solid
Hard
Nothing flows
Anymore
Except in the
Heart of my mind’s
Eye
In that space
I remember
Re Member
Myself
Back to the
Nothingness
The void that is
All
Centre
Everything
In that space
Between breath
And death
I am somehow
Whole
Myself
In all my splendour
Only here am I
Truly me
Everything else is
The half-remembered
Dream
Of One who once
Was starlight
And infinite

(c) AM (Xander) Hunter November 2023

Dani Take the Firebrand

For Dani

Dani take the Firebrand run Dani run
Dani take the Firebrand run Dani run
Run like Artemis Joyously across the forest floor

Dani take the Firebrand fly Dani fly
Dani take the Firebrand fly Dani fly
Fly like Selene serenely across the darkened sky

Dani take the Firebrand sink Dani sink
Dani take the Firebrand sink Dani sink
Sink like Persephone courageously through your shadows deep

Dani take the Firebrand run Dani run
Dani take the Firebrand run Dani run
Run like Artemis Joyously across the forest floor

Dani take the Firebrand fly Dani fly
Dani take the Firebrand fly Dani fly
Fly like Selene serenely across the darkened sky

Dani take the Firebrand sink Dani sink
Dani take the Firebrand sink Dani sink
Sink like Persephone courageously through your shadows deep

Dani take the Firebrand run Dani run
Dani take the Firebrand run Dani run
Run like Artemis Joyously across the forest floor

Dani take the Firebrand fly Dani fly
Dani take the Firebrand fly Dani fly
Fly like Selene serenely across the darkened sky

Dani take the Firebrand sink Dani sink
Dani take the Firebrand sink Dani sink
Sink like Persephone courageously through your shadows deep

© AM (Xander) Hunter 2016

Listen to the song

Weaver Hear My Prayer

For Kathleen – a healing spell song

Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care
Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care

One I know is ill
One I know needs strength of will
One I know is ill
One I know needs strength of will

Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care
Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care

Weave their body strong
And their will to live life long
Weave their body strong
And their will to live life long

Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care
Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care

Clear them of disease
And their pain let it recede
Clear them of disease
And their pain let it recede

Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care
Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care

Weave their body strong
And their will to live life long
Weave their body strong
And their will to live life long

Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care
Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care

One I know is ill
One I know needs strength of will
One I know is ill
One I know needs strength of will

Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care
Weaver hear my prayer
Weaver weave this thread with care

© AM (Xander) Hunter November 2022

Song – Weaver Hear My Prayer – by Xander

Hestia Chant

A Chant for when you are cleaning.

Hestia of hearth and home
See this stain which seeks to roam
Take it up let none remain
Let this place be free from stain.

Hestia of hearth and home
See this stain which seeks to roam
Take it up let none remain
Let this place be free from stain.

Hestia of hearth and home
See this stain which seeks to roam
Take it up let none remain
Let this place be free from stain.

© AM (Xander) Hunter August 2023

Hestia Chant for Cleaning – with intro

Lucifer Fell

Lucifer fell from the sky on a day
As the Earth was still turning round
Lucifer fell from the sky on a day
As the Earth was still turning round

He burned as he fell and he fell as he burned
And he turned into ash on the ground
He burned as he fell and he fell as he burned
And he turned into ash on the ground

The light that you see low in the sky
At morning and evening is He falling by

Your feet are His ash while your eyes are His spark
And your lips mouth His question of why
Your feet are His ash while your eyes are His spark
And your lips mouth His question of why

His wisdom lies here at the heart of your soul
If you only knew first how to cry
His wisdom lies here at the heart of your soul
If you only knew first how to cry

The light that you see low in the sky
At morning and evening is He falling by

Lucifer fell from the sky on a day
As the Earth was still turning round

© AM (Xander) Hunter May 2023

Lucifer Fell – Song

Feels Like Home

For Felix

I love the way you make me feel when you hug me
I know I’m not alone
I love the way you make me feel when you’re with me
Cause it feels like home
It feels like
Home

I can feel and cry freely
I don’t have to hold it in
I can rage and scream and yell
And it won’t sound like a din
I don’t have to pretend
Cause my mask is coming off

With you I’m fee
To be me

Why can’t I cry?
Why must my sun just keep on shining
Clouds refuse to pass by
And my heart just keeps on pining
Fills me up, every port
Overflows till there’s just drowning
Neverending always more
Head can’t think for pounding
A flash of red
My blood just keeps on raging
And that flush of dread
Many eyes that seek engaging

Till you’re just there
A touch a sound my anchor
A show of care
Around me now my harbour
And I know I’m held
Your arms, no place safer
Such release, heart felt
Sun returns from its shelter

I love the way you make me feel when you hug me
I know I’m not alone
I love the way you make me feel when you’re with me
Cause it feels like home
It feels like
Home

© AM (Xander) Hunter July 2023

Listen to the song

About the Song

Dinner Mug

A challenge

It’s old cracked and worn
From the love that it’s seen
In the light you can still see a trace

At the back of our cupboard
It sits alone and unwashed
Ol’ shadowed time capturing a face

The only thing I have left
To remember you by
And looking at it now sadness drips

Opportunities lost
Hidden words left unsaid
Heart like ropes over which I still trip

They don’t understand why
It still sits on that shelf
Keep telling me to get something new

That while it still sits there
It’s like you’re still around
Their heads are thick, words just don’t get through

In the morning I sit
Tell you how well I slept
The trivial things you never heard

And for a brief moment
Twirling feathers in air
I lift off from the ground like a bird

Things will change, I know that
I’m not fooling myself
Gripping tight till it tears me apart

I’ll look at the cupboard
And just see an old mug
Not time mending pieces of my heart

© July 2023 AM (Xander) Hunter