Never Tear Us A-Part

These are strange times.

KN95 is the new Black.

Long-standing inequities and complex traumas

Under the lens of collective shame.

Health “care” in crisis.

Financial values in question.

A person can get down right

Overwhelmed.

What Part have I played 

In creating this world?

I pull a card saying to be me, and

Trust in whatever makes me happiest.

I direct my mind to focus on

All I have been blessed with holding.

I move, center, and feed my body

Until my cells are humming along with me.

A person can consciously choose

Peace.

What Part CAN I play

In creating this world?

This feels a bit like labor

Waves of contraction.

What have we collectively conceived  and

When is this baby coming?

Birth is like death,

The mind in its right subordinate place.

Guided by an inner knowing and

Called to surrender to the unknown.

In hard times we remember

What and whom we love most.

We may need each other.

Never tear us apart.