Moonlit Pool

All echoes of a distant past
lay silent as a shawl:
no whispered tune
no sandstone rune
no ancient Elder's call;
All that exists before me lies
within a moonlit pool:
a gateway home
a mirrored stone
an opalescent jewel;
I stand prepared to leap within,
with trust my only shield:
beyond this land
-by my command-
the sacred Path's revealed.