21/02/2022

Humus Words

Deep the humus words that seek essential sense

Your dark riches evade language

Lock in meaning with nutrients

Pierce the faded flesh of thought

Write hope on the taut wings of a moth

Stretch human longing over the bark of a tree

Reveal the fissures and burs of ancient knowing

A Knowing before knowledge

A being that we see with the heart

 

Tears track the violence of a face

I am mindful of the many stumps

Of the slashed at and burnt

We have not always worn a mask of greed

Veins that carry sap for healing

Reach to redeem what has been lost

Right relationship, some seamless way

Decay the siren call of life renewed

Underground though not forgotten