Grab Hold With All Your Might

Now
 

The time has come

It's in the layers

It's in the layers

It's in the layers

In the scents and colors both perfect and onion 

It's in the bitterness and the warmth of a blanket sewn so perfectly for the weight of my skin

It's the rubbed in shine, sunlight glinting

Oh the elbow grease it took to light up this life

This one chance we have to make something that matters

Let me forget myself so that others might realize themselves

I have within me a power that will crack the center of the earth with my whisper of say so

I will reign in my whisper so that I can caress the softest skin with truth

The toughest skin and scar tissue with hope

I will control the fire in these first hours 

With wisdom and understanding

Knowing that this blaze will produce a diamond that will alight on the finger of humanity

Making us all richer for the realization 

That we are together, intertwined and one, even in our vast differences

I am undone by the tapestry of our future

Let us grasp our destinies, our supposed to be, our this is what I was born for

For such a time as this, we have been called and set apart

Part the sea with your staff, never look back and never apologize

The time has come

It's Clearer Up Here

Aerial View

We saw you, when the earth shook you loose,
Build a ladder from your backbones
To climb back up, day after day

We saw you in the bitter frost & the cold,
Circle your hearts
Passing an ember from hand to hand
Until you glowed from within once again

We saw you in the night, silent and shattered
Staring into the darkness

Until the path was awash in your light
So while you stumbled, you never fell.

We saw you in the brush strokes & tears,
Create something new from what was past
Until the old and dusty gallery

Sang with your colors

We saw you in the sun tipped mist of morning,
Breathe deeply as life was rekindled
In the eyes of a boy and the smile of a girl

We see you, in the drought and the deluge

Keeping your vigil

Candle flames holding steady, staying true

We see you, your footprints in the valley

Your broken nails in the mountainside

Your words ever weaving a guide rope

For those to come

We see you, laughter and cornerstones your legacy
Hundreds bearing witness to the work of your hands.

The beat of your hearts giving us the air.

We see you.