A rambling, unedited, stream of consciousness something—maybe a poem, maybe a prayer, maybe both, maybe nothing, maybe everything, maybe called, Interdependence Day.
Sunny skies swirl cloud and blue and sun
not above or below but everywhere in around us all
a shared breath selfsame breath selfsame air
this invisible shared inhaling and blending exhales
this ground of grass and pavement makes for no roads
only one vast common floor
floor of blood floor of starvation of unspeakable must be
spoken violence hate and canceling of people
floor of dancing floor of fighting stolen floor
rights torn away floor must somehow somenow heal floor
bridged floor above
inconceivable now conceivable all swallowing fire
hunger and toppling of trees and collapsing communities
of ingesting entire species into gone and gone and gone
bridges merging never truly apart thirst of soul
of ache for home longing for all fears comforted away and through
everything depends on red wagons and hands across the water
and apple trees and honeybees and putting your hand in the hand
of the one who calms the sea please believe in us tree and fields vegetables
and fruits forgive us our sins against you but have no mercy
but instead rage that sweeps us all into we must change
as long as we share breath of sage of seasons rituals
and last breaths and first breaths playful breaths of children
and of giraffes and bats dolphins and whales the cricket the crane
it swirls blue skies and sunlight swirling differences into somehow
a song lament psalm choir of here now angels
of purple mountains majesty of amber waves of grain
of rockets red glare and ramparts and land not free
but stolen may we breath the spirit of manifest restitution
understanding until ever more justice be done as protests bloom
and riots cleanse and conversations difficult and trembling and hopeful
move us to tears and the ability to bear witness to one anothers pain
of the ability of feeding each other ourselves from shared gardens
free us of the illusion delusions of breath being
our own we share swirling blue skies and sunlight in our bodies
may we fall into each others arms and weep until the healing is done