Thank you
For the hills and the fields
We have passed many faces
I am grateful for each one of these
I chose to come thus far
But was carried here by siblings
Who made it happen

With this sudden realisation
We have filled Gaia with love
And continue to do so
Until homebound our true course
Takes this wagon full of gratitude
To a different altitude
Where the relative differences
Between giants has been settled
Over a cup of nettle tea
As in times of Olde
Before any talk of gold or barter
Where being martyr actually meant something

I forget that to give one’s life
Does not cease one breathing
But fills her with meaning
Beyond the mundane
Yet some call it insane
The path of giving

When the disguise trips to reveal
This canine Freudian slip
It is the tip of the iceberg
For the psyche
Wading through the dirt
a swine-like search
For the wisdom of truffle
Shuffling through the murky mess of life’s lurch
To attain the diamond in the sand

Passing it around to accept our mortality;
To find love for each other and manifest parity
For all these beings
With their sight they cause reality we live
So give what your will allows
Save enough rawness
To make some more mess
With this love and this land there is home for us all
To breath a clean conscience

In this predetermined egg and spoon race,
Neglecting the entire garden,
and the fact that we are guardians
Is lost to some
The epiphany will come
The sums will add up for the lazy
As the crazy rant and rave
Over their craving for a vegetative
Dietetic state of emergency

For the awakening to being
Pull this gem up from sin
Into ethereal environment
Silent merriment of the joker
Contests dominance lightly
But in secret will germinate madness
Within mass mind to tear apart
These castes which have broken
Our hearts to the point of compliance
With something less than pure science

A less than noble lie
Sense to drill
These nonsensical operations
Into our daily veneration for life
Meant to pierce what is left of eternity
With light so potent it can change our verse
Yet only when focused
With utmost certainty
So travel wide
Make sure

It will fill you with love so pure
You will come home a healer
By deed, not by choice
By nature
It will moisten the cavernous minds
Dried by systems unkind
of the dearly beloved you thought left behind
Yet here they remain as an anchor
To your destiny
By minding your roots with mycelial density
Reminding where one comes from

Give to this earth that we have grown
Anomalous flowering of mysterious seed sown
We can prune it to perfection
Correct these behavioral inflections
We inflict on each other
By seeking council with
Holiest temple our mother
To whom we should be grateful

To her
To him
To one another
Thank you
Only the highest realms of gratitude