Poetry by Tirzah Mason: Marching Orders
It is a brilliant and clear statement of where we are and what’s at stake. Our work has been cut out for us since the beginning. As we are corralled by snow in the next two days, let us think about how to support each other in this most urgent work.
I offer this poem in response to Rosemary Wahtola Trommer’s brilliant poem, “We might as well be Divine.”
“As we march, as we gather, as we fight for each other, we might as well be divine”
Marching Orders
Be safe,
And if you can’t be safe
Be divine.
Because it may be that
This world doesn’t
Deserve us and we have to
Start over in some other world
Where love is the only fuel
And there are no opposites.
If you can,
Be safe AND divine.
Fiercely calm and
Ferociously loving
Until it dissolves
ICE into a puddle
We can step over
On our way to liberation
Photo provided by Tirzah Mason.
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