TODAY THERE IS NO WIND
Today there is no wind
The sky is full of blue
And I am breathing you
Today there is no wind
The light breaks open like a prayer
The hills are floating in the sky
Desert water everywhere
Today there is no wind
A gemsbok walks across the sky
This insubstantial landscape
A mirage in my eye
I have an image of this silence
Printed in my brain
All the bone and beauty of it
To take me home again
Take me home again
Home again
Today there is no wind
The sky is full of blue
And I am breathing you
I am breathing you
I am breathing you
TODAY THERE IS NO WIND
I wrote this lyric for someone I love.
Standing alone in clean desert air, no wind, space reaching out all around me, the sky an impossible blue, the hills floating in the sky and mirage water all around: and no sound: no sound at all – feels like I am standing in a place of almost biblical revelation. It is no wonder the desert has been a place of vision.
- Barbara Fairhead