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.