Siberry poem

This poem was found on Facebook, written by eccentric, yet often beautiful, singer/songwriter Jane Siberry. It shows she has no lack of poetic skill even if the music gifts she had in the early to middle 1990s are seldom seen as she has focused too much on being theatrical:

Let me be a living statue
Holding all that life does send
Let me be a living statue
Knowing when to brace or bend
The stillness in the hurricane
The eye within the spirallng storm
A gauge of love’s eternal promise
Whispered through each dawning morn 

Let me be a living statue
Stark against indifference
Let all life move through me freely
Joy and sorrow, pure, intense
Let me know the faith that knows no bounds
No meagre more my chosen sound
The sound of exhultation
Ever-upward countenance 

Though the jagged winds despair
To ever rise above the sound
So the human soul in rising up
Still panics that we drown 

As you flowed through those before me
Now I separate my rings
I consider this the lily
I accept all that this brings
Facing fully to the wind
Not turning from the hardest parts
Let me be a living statue
Fearless, though my pounding heart 

Let me be a living statue
Holding all that life does send
Let me be a living statue
Knowing when to brace or bend
Let my blessings simply be
To know each moment blessing me
Let me be a living statue
A Pillar of Love’s firmament.