take up space
and be a Garden
welcome seeds of knowledge home
loving, naming
splitting open
knowledge means
to know
spread fireseeds
like bits of ember
sparks from sorrowed hearts
cradled and tendered
in tangles and brambles
pierce earth softly
making mesh
take up space
and be a Forest
which at times must burn,
the unbodied must rot
diversity thriving
in sunlit gaps
of breathing giants
there are those that wish
to take up space
and be an island
mining sand
from other shores
melting ancient bones to guns
to play their games of war
so we must spread
like eclipse over Golgotha
the sky dressed in
mourning shroud
sheltering in shadows
the ones
we’ve almost lost
take up space
and tell a Story
let not one beauty be forgone
the cells we share
will thank us some day
in their new bodies
lake or stone
