How do we recover
What we’ve lost
If we don’t know they’ve been lost?
How do we remember
What we have never known or seen or held?
How do we bring to mind
If we live in a state of mindlessness?
How can we laugh if we’ve never cried?
How do we recover what we have never lost
Our relatives
Our communities
Our beingness
How do we unsee
What we have printed in the darkrooms of our minds?
How do we remember what we have dismembered?
Stand still
Flotsam on the milky way
Draw the fragments of radical love
Restore the pieces of broken peace
Hold the potsherds of shattered memories
How do we recover what we have never lost
Our relatives
Our communities
Our being in the centre of our minds
Listen to our dreams
See the rivers, mountains and trees in our souls
Rooted
Turn and share a smile
Shake hands with the wind once more
Look beneath your busy feet
See where the embrace of the earth and the sea meet
Know we have never left
