A Declaration of Interdependence
What is life?
The mind reaches for solution
Quite the loaded question
With no simple resolution
Sends me spinning into perpetual convolution
I refine my question to what defines life
and does our human-centric definitions confine life
like dams upon the boundless streams
Is life merely erected by the sum of the projections of the human collective?
or is it more….
it must be more…
So. much. more.
As a wise woman once said
the aliveness thrives within us
drawn from sources infinite well
Biotic, abiotic, animate or those who say not
There are complex layers of experience
held within each atom and each cell
And only time will tell if we can expand ourselves
to relinquish our limited definitions of cognition
to transcend the human condition
To see past the screen of the anthropocene
to include all of existence with no imaginary ceiling
So that we may not deem our highly complex feelings
as more of less than any other being
but eco-uivalent
We are nothing but mere contribution to the Holy Whole.
So may we hold all beings in the light of truly seeing
and receiving the truth that even the smallest of lives are steepen in meaning
That every breathing body has feelings and is capable of dreaming
May we use our greivings to feed the notion
that each planktonic form in the ocean
holds a sea of divinity
its own sacred story
no less or greater than the tale of you and me.
Wether tails or fins or wings or shins
We can create a way where all of life wins
Where the other is my brother and you are kin
despite the differing composure of our skins
And so it begins…
The shifting and lifting of our delusion
For inclusion is the only solution in this age of re-evolution
I rember
And I dream
Of a world where there is no ration of compassion
but weavings of unity and inter-species community
Is the dress we fashion
That we wear proudly
and use our voice to speak loudly
On behalf of the hard and the soft
the mobile and the still
the red and the green
the healthy and the ill
the simple and the complex
the behemoth and the small
the vocal and the silent
may we speak for them all!
Because life and its rights,
the inherent worthiness to thrive
is not just OUR call. It is inherent.
Source adorns all of its children
and all of creation
with the gift of timeless aliveness.
May we open our hearts
and extend our harnds
as we remember…
As we begin to see ourselves
and all of our relations
free from the illusion of separation
As we lean into the facilitation
of all beings liberation
and honoring
all of life’s divination
All is all is all is all
may we stay humble as we heed life’s great call.