light a candle

light a fire

melt numbness

warm the heart

let flames flicker imagination

let them roar with delight

enliven wonder

and enchantment

awaken and embrace

let the heat of a thousand fires

heal wounds of all displaced

fire sparks intone

greetings and repair

singing songs of belonging

of entanglement and care

let a thousand flames rise

melt numbness, offer prayers

sing to the office towers

to asphalt roads and crows

city voices echoing

all the things our bodies know

we’re all entwined together

need each one of us to grow

sing to the saplings

listen and wander slow

woodland voices echo

all the things our bodies know

we’re all entwined together

need each one of us to grow

hills they whisper secrets

mountains beckon with mourning moans

grass enchants and calls out
sky singing us back home

though numb for many centuries

from ancestors, from dreams

the things that tether all of us

still bind still wind and weave

time spirals around itself

forward back and through

finding rhythm in each heartbeat

finding me in each of you

let us find ourselves together

in every pulse, every inhale

let us find ourselves in singing

remember love will prevail