Holy ones we are stoking the fire of hope

  in an empire that feeds on our hopelessness

  and believes all fire must be destructive

  we believe in the rings of fire

  that encircle every portal of transformation

Holy ones

  we are the doulas of the future

  the keepers of tomorrow’s fire

Empire rains down its violence on us

  and we tend our fires

  with no cover, with no protection from the wind

  no army, just grandparents and children

  holding hands, all of time between their palms

Holy ones the prayers keep changing

  protect the harmed, and heal the hearts of the harmful

  our jewish siblings are unbraiding their lineage from a harmful spell

  but aren’t we all caught in these harmful fear-based shapes

  we stand in solidarity as we burn away our pain

  as we burn away our trauma

  and any limitations on our love

Holy ones we have prayed, we have wept

  we have sat vigil all night as bombs

  purchased with our labor fell on our beloveds

  we have gone hungry, we have gone on strike

  we boycott, we too slowly divest

  we have called, we have written letters

  we have appealed to the law at every level of

  local, federal and global society

we have disrupted traffic and boat routes –

Holy ones

  thank you the fire of each person who has taken an action

  thank you for the sparks in those yet to act

  already knowing their bodies want to be used in this way

We have encamped!

Holy ones

  thank you for the fire of these students!

  for what they spark in us

  we see the divinity in their smiles and

  songs and dances and sustaining and libraries and sacrifice

  everyone in your own way send your warmth and gratitude

  share your fire with our action warriors

  share your fire with our baby warriors

  share your fire with our teacher warriors

Holy ones remind us that we are always fire

  even when we face the cold shoulder of ‘leaders’ who ignore and defy us

  who are on orders from entities that don’t trust life

  who act unstoppable and almost make us believe them

Holy ones give us patience

  for those who call for patience

  patience cannot precede peace

  peace cannot precede justice

Holy ones remind us the fire is within and between us

  share this fire:

  we deserve a shared earth

  bring attention to life

  even in the form of grief

Holy ones when it feels unbearable

  remind us, somewhere there waits a seed that only opens in the fire

  and the future lives within it

  and each of us is that seed

  and each of us is that fire

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