Earth Remembering
Author: Patti Cobian Issue: 2025-01-01
Earth Remembering
by Patti Cobian
This piece came through as a response to the fear and anxiety that has arisen since the results of the election (though can probably be applied to other matters).
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Earth Remembering
The day came and went, and as for the Earth, She paid little mind
Do you think, She said, that I have not known this? That I do not beat in every heart that beats in mine?
I call to you I call to each and every one of you And though you may think there are hearts too dead to hear my call, you, too, have forgotten
that my heart beats in every body and every blade. You have forgotten my wisdom Or maybe you have never known
what it is that I do in dreams and sleep
in idle thoughts and quickened heartbeats
Your simple minds cannot hold the ends of a billion threads
And you forget your place when you try You forget my place when you try
A planetary virus is not a wrongness But you mistake the symptoms for your business
Come back to me, She says, I am alive in you and I call to you
I call you back to your joy so that you may feel your grief I call you back to your heart so that you may sleep
and rise to meet me in your wisdom and not your fear where you are of no use to me.
Yours is not a battle of mind, you see It never was nor will it ever be anything more than a clarion call to your remembering
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