Shedding

Feel that deepening connection Our paths crossed for a reason To share in this relational conversation Sinking deeper into our initial foundation A subterranean look into your ancestry That hallway extending deeper than you can see Lit with the spirit world torch light Sit in our unlimited whole foresight Feel it wrap around your ankles Submerge Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live And live and live And live and live Breathe in deep the first fresh air After all the forest fires that have burned near Tectonics underground have shifted here Breathe in that first fresh air From echoes in this valley flowing Drum-song gusts blowing Into cedar and spruce thru Trauma that recently bloomed In the gardens of schools to The children secretly scooped Past the control of sacred dreams Charcoal burned by colonial regimes Past the five-century fever of pyrexia Into eyes of storms emerging from millennia Of contracts well-kept with the land Witnesses holding our honour to stand For the seventh seven seven generations in hand Past colonial lines marked in the sand Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Listen when she speak Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you What I know is This is our growth Our turmoil To the holy filth For something greater More than a burden of guilt A duty to build And enjoy Crosses only crucify While the medicine wheel Unites four directions Learning on the ground Transform what is found With the mounds of her words that we are bound We scream this sound aloud aloud aloud We won't ever abdicate Pledges made to recreate Bonding with celerity Dumping their austerity Forging solidarity Laughing out hysterically In the eyes of new storms Relationships form Eye contact Gazes warm Iris fully lit with the torch of purpose Honeyed hazel earthen golden green grey Sharp inhale with focus we find clean ways Winds sailing oceans rejuvenating place See the fields opening out from the forest The orange and yellow autumn leaves Shed his aggression & indifference For devotion & deliverance Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Listen when she speak Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live And live and live And live and live Hear the voice in the trees The land speaking to me Land speaking to you Listen when she speak Hear the voice in the wind Wishing us to live And live and live And live and live