The Other Voice

As dawn breaks
in this microcosm of the day,
I stop to listen at the pause
of breath and sound
to what instruction from the heart
that can be heard or read
that will direct the courses taken
in the stream of time...
This rapid flow that
sweeps us forward on
the moving crest of life's
events--
that pushes us toward
the great unknowns
is not the only power that holds
our fate.
This other voice awakens us
to take some new direction
or make some simple change of thought
or deed, that moves the
macrocosmic wheels of heaven
and earth unseen.