Back to Dirt

This is not my people

This is not my tribe

There is some darkness behind

The way they show up

They come with weird traditions

When ours are still not back

I feel the protector

Of this land

Someone please explain to me

What they are here to

Get done

What are the spells

Casted onto

This pristine mountain

Why are they not sharing openly

Their recipe

From the start

In the midst of the swirl

I learnt to relax

I listened with shame

The dialogue in my head

I then leaned

Into trust

As I observed something special

In their approach

They honoured the land

They honoured the past

They honoured the spirits

Of this piece of land

The lost traditions

The witches burnt

The tongue so old 

No one knows

Where it comes from

We entered the Earth together

We were all reborn

As twins

As family

From the same mum

The same dad

In a ritual

United and committed

To shift our lives

Into new

Trajectories

As the days passed by

Our energies filled up

With every beat of the drum

With every song of the elders

The joy of the kids

The rain that came by

The sun that made us laugh

We learnt to say sorry

In community

Sorry to the land

We learnt to say thank you

Thank you for everything you've done

We remember our ancestors

That live in us

We remembered our purpose

To walk on this land

Society calls

"Dirt" to Soil

Then, they invite:

Come back to "dirt"

Dress your brightest dress

And come inside

Mother Earth

Come,

Sweat,

Feel the fire of the stones

Feel the water dripping 

From your brothers' throats

We are one

We share the water

Let it run

Water in

Water out

There are no showers

The lessons

Accumulate in our skin

For days

To come

Remember

The flowery smell

Of your natural scent

Sterile

Is just a fancy name

Of the controlling mind

The way to restore health

Is simply,

To listen

To let it be

To go in

Darkness turned into sunshine

People's eyes lightened up

As the storms journeyed away

The rainbow showed up

The bell rings 

Casted the evils out

The prayers worked

We reunited

With Mother Earth

I'm not from this tribe

I'm not from this blue rock

But I am 

Paradoxically

From this land

And I came here

To protect Her

After 15 years 

Studying Her

Her oceans

Her ice fields

The history

On her skin

These people are my siblings

They came to help me

Reunite

With my mum

I'm forever grateful

To the sky above

To send me family

With great wisdom

To finally land

To the old man

With the cosmic vision

To offer a hand

For generations to come

To create this energy field

Near where I was first born

For the millennial oak tree

That rooted for us

The eagles that overview us

The grasshoppers 

And mycelium

That bridge our continents

And spiders 

Who weaved the spirits

Below our feet

So that this all

Could happen

In sacred time