Meditation on Calypso

Meditation on Calypso

Although I have never been on a wind-powered vessel of any type, John Denver’s Calypso speaks directly to my spirit. This is the song of my soul, it reflects the way my life goes and the way I feel. Sometimes I am riding “the crest of a wild raging storm” and sometimes “a crystal clear ocean”. However, whether I am riding the storm or on a calm sea, I am always attempting to ask the unknown questions and find the answers to them.

I feel that like calypso I am a laboring “in the service of life” and continually growing. I find that no matter where I am in life I always have someone to guide me through the dark ocean. No matter how bad the storm the calm is approaching.

Calypso
By John Denver

To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean
To ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
To work in the service of life and the living
In search of the answers to questions unknown
To be part of the movement and part of the growing
Part of beginning to understand

Aye, calypso, the places you’ve been to
The things that you’ve shown us
The stories you tell
Aye, calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well

Like the dolphin who guides you
You bring us beside you
To light up the darkness and show us the way
For though we are strangers in your silent world
To live on the land we must learn from the sea
To be true as the tide
And free as the wind-swell
Joyful and loving in letting it be

Aye, calypso, the places you’ve been to
The things that you’ve shown us
The stories you tell
Aye, calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well

Aye, calypso, the places you’ve been to
The things that you’ve shown us
The stories you tell
Aye, calypso, I sing to your spirit
The men who have served you
So long and so well