The Overstory

Courage means to denote the heart

as the seat of spirit, 

and speaking one’s mind

by telling all of one’s heart. 

To discourage, then,

is to take the heart out.

To encourage

is to help the other keep their heart

within.

So I am here to tell you, 

my beloved stranger and friend, 

nature resonates in the key of courage,

and when we are courageous enough,  

we, too, begin to harmonize 

in its frequency,

and everything that lives opens 

to conspire with us 

to become 

more

Life.

Yes, there is grief,

but grief is the ceremony. 

It is a site for another kind of power.

It is the resacralization of sorrow

to make room 

for a world beyond

holesness

So make every action

a ceremony

for wholeness.

Re-member to remember. 

In these times of genocide and ecological suicide

we must sacrifice our conveniences

for the resacralization of life.

Sorrow’s equanimity

is gratitude. 

And their violence cannot dispel our love.

We are now given no choice 

but to stand in the understory 

of a miracle.

So, re-remember to remember

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.