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

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so we must spread

like eclipse over Golgotha

the sky dressed in

mourning shroud

sheltering in shadows

the ones

we’ve almost lost

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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