Circle of Quiet Fire

Circle of Quiet Fire She stands within the circle. where light rests, not burns. The deer does not bow. It stays. This is how protection works— by nearness, by choosing not to flee. What the ancestors left was not commanded, But example. They carried weight without closing their hands. They guarded life by moving gently through it. Compassion is learned from watching What does not hurry. Resilience is breath taken again, and again. Freedom lives here: to stand in one’s own shape, to share the circle, to let the world remain whole beside you. The earth holds the teaching. The wind does not forget.