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of earth & spirit
the wind danced against these bones
until i became transparent.
these bones danced
with the spirit of the place
to reach the time before Time.
i let myself go to let the soul breathe—
and the earth, she wept through me.
i cried not for myself
but for the alienation
of modern existence.
i cried for the earth
before asphalt,
after our fingers
stopped feeling her warmth.
i wailed with fountains of grief
rising from my belly.
i mourned the distance from self
and from others
and from planet,
this estrangement
at the heart of all darkness.
if we can breathe,
we must breathe.
if we can feel,
we must feel,
must allow the emotion
and observe energy in motion.
we make peace with this pain
as we feel its full expression.
we must have grace for each other
in vulnerable spaces
as we heal the whole
by healing ourselves.
though my soul tends
to rise up from my body
i cannot sustain existence
in the ether —
i am tasked to be a body
and to make myself whole.
i am a Body, formed of the Earth.
my ancestors meet in these bones.
i am fed and am filled
by the cycles of this land,
and the land finds its
human expression in me.
i am the earth and the earth is my body.
as Woman i walk with my feet
in the earth and my head in the stars.
i carry the womb
of all women before me
and i hold the eggs of all Life
that flows through me, divine consciousness married to this flesh.
i am the breath of spirit
embodying loving awareness.
i am a duality of earth and spirit
and i contain Multitudes.
is not my spirit alive in each cell,
vibrating into space
with every single heartbeat?
could it not be that these forces
animating my soul
are the same forces
that set planets in motion
and hold the cosmos together?
to be Whole is to be Part.
i am a part of mySelf.
i am a part of You.
i am a part of the Earth.
i dwell in myself
and my deepest hurts
and my greatest hopes.
i wept for a world
that feels itself through me.
and then—
with forest fires flickering
through my eyelids
and my tears filling flood plains—
i was Still.
By Birdy @still_space