Phoenix

Oh Dear Goddess, what path are we on?

It looks so lovely, simple and clear….

Where

Where will it take us….

Greta says

ACT

Like your house is burning down!

Because it is.

Yet

We stroll through green forests, delight in the streams

We still find food at the grocery store.

The switch on the wall still lights up the warm cozy room

We haven’t noticed that the house has already burned down.

Cremated

World

Culture

Species

And more species

And More

Cremated

The future

Ashes and dirty socks and…..

and….

and…..

I can not put my hope in stopping the burning….

Sometimes the firefighters arrive and it is just too late to save it….

Then what?

Tell me Phoenix,

We need to know what you know

about burning,

about ashes,

about rising again….

Slow, tender, one feather at a time…

You think you know phoenix?

You don’t.

Open your heart wide!

Wider….

What rises from the ashes will look

But look nothing like anything

that was before.

Woven together with hope and regret,

With lessons learned

Dear Goddess, I pray,

lessons learned…

It begins from ashes and old roots,

but the becoming

will become

What has never been before

Life doesn’t die,

it changes….

Cedar Moss

4-4-2021