Clear  the  Way!

Hanta Yo

I stand at the center

and the light shines all around me

and now I know my spirit glowing makes this light.

I come into power with the sun for I am the sun.

I am my own light.

Here at the center I see the meaning of things, all things.

And now I know that I am the meaning.

The whole meaning.

The four directions come together in me.

I am the center

and everything flows from me, returns to me.

I am that which they call Great Mystery.

I am that which each one calls Wakantanka before coming here,

before seeing the light.

I am here and so I know.

Here I know everything.

Here I know myself.

I am thought and will.

And nothing sits above my will.

I am pride and joy.

And nothing sits above my joy.

I own my life.

And only mine.

And so I shall appreciate my person.

And so I shall make proper use of myself.

I stand here in the light of my own presence

and I recognize my power.

I am reason.

And nothing sits above my choice.

I am truth.

And so I live in the spirit.

And so I live forever.

I am the oneness of the whole.

And whatever happens, happens in me.

I am Ahbleza.

I own the earth.

from Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill

Out  of  the  Tomb

Don Hynes  October 20, 2018

The big earthquake 

already happened,

land split apart,

tsunamis over the coast,

damage and desolation

to souls everywhere

from the great rending.

How much more broken

will spiritual life become

before we realize apocalypse

is in our rear view mirror

and what we are faced with

is the long re-integration.

Not survival, that bleak term,

but the reformation

of the human spirit,

the re-grounding of the soul

in the vast root system

of the eternal.

Unmoved by the shaking

the house of spirit

remains on its foundation

and already the green land

heals the wounds

of mindless invention.

Grafts on the tree of life

fall away and perish

as new growth rises

from the dark root

and branches out

into the chill blue sky.

We are changers

not the changed.

All we lose are grave clothes

as we step forward

out of the tomb

into the welcoming light

of the new garden.

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