The Understory

As long as there is learning

Nothing is lost.

May we learn our lessons swiftly

and lose nothing in our letting go.

Courage is to denote the heart

as the seat of spirit.

To discourage means to take the heart out.

To encourage is to help the other keep their heart

within.

So I am here to tell you, 

my stranger and friend, 

Nature resonates in the key of courage,

and when we are courageous enough,  

we, too, begin to harmonize 

in this frequency,

and everything that lives opens 

to conspire with us 

to become 

more

Life.

Grief is a ceremony. 

A site for another kind of power.

It is the resacralization of sorrow

to make room 

for a world beyond 

brokenness.

Honor the ceremony.

Remember to remember. 

In these times of genocide and ecological suicide

in every action, 

resacralize life.

Sorrow’s equanimity

is gratitude. 

Their violence cannot dispel or love.

We are now given no choice 

but to stand in the understory 

of a miracle.

If you’re a changemaker,

expect to change the most.

We are an ancestral remembrance 

flung far into the future.

Through a sliver in time,

life found a narrow passage.

We must now walk through it.

And treasure the dream 

no matter the nightmare.

Yes, we will treasure the dream 

no matter the terror.