ally and self - Responsibility

Stand with the people who've lived here since the ice left
though admit
settle enough to realize that
- if you eat, drink, defecate, or breathe -
you are of this land too.

Live as an expression of your geography

even if your food comes from a storeyou are of this earth.

 Earth doesn't need us, really.

We need those plants.
We need those animals.
We need those fungi.

It's ok to feel that humility
- now speak for life -
and live within the perpetual systems
that begin where the sun meets earth
and seeds memory

these aren't choices to stand up for the health of the planet,
this is your responsibility, for you are alive at this time.