I dug this out of the old poems chest.
For myself, you and for the rest of the world.
We can always do better.
Wake up the eagle
© Copyright 1997 Zion Nefesh
wake up the eagle,
the eagle inside
set it free
wide wings to spread
and neck to stretch
wake up the eagle
let it rise
jump high and fly
to seventh sphere then climb
where no border to confine
seek and touch heaven,
rule the skies and
unlock the hidden divine
wake up the eagle
the eagle inside
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Today I found this website, and your poem. Yesterday I drove with my camera to a residential area where I had heard some Bald Eagles frequent. On the way I prayed to Hashem to please let me see one. I’ve had my picture taken next to one, at my friend’s animal rescue/release center, been yelled at by one, been touched by his wing, but I had never seen one in the wild. So, I prayed.
I wasn’t exactly sure where to look, so I stopped and asked a man who was out cleaning his driveway. As he directed me to a park where the “bird watchers” watch, just across the way but a drive of a few miles, he looked up and said, “There’s one now.” I looked up to see a beautiful Bald Eagle fly very low right over our heads, his white head and tail perfectly visible as he checked me out. My heart cried, Baruch Hashem! Thank you!
There is something about the eagle, this Ruler of the Sky. Maybe he is waking up the eagle inside of me.