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An Ancestor’s Enough

My tether withers without

The hearth

We feed them milk and honey

Mead and ale

We give them time

For time well spent

To get us here

They smile on my songs 

And bless me

With their voice in dreams

Their hands when I am lost

They know the way

An ancestor alone’s enough

To brave the storm

We hear them in the rain and call

Of wild birds hunting

They see us on the wing 

And they remember

Song for the broken hearted

Love is never lost

Never erased

It lives in the cells that remember

Touch breath embrace

The light whisper 

the laughter

It lives on in the patterns of light that flash

Through our inner darkness

It formed the pathways

Birthed this future out of darkness

Love is never lost

It is captured in memory

And more that memory in form

It lives in our every transaction

In how we smile how we sing

It lives in the shape of our growth

Like the wind in the shape of a twisting branch

Like sunlight in the reaching trunk

Love is never in vain never

Futile never meaningless

It’s fact is solid

Solid as death

Love once given cannot be taken

From us it lives in our existence

Like dna coiling through the whole

Like starborn atoms indivisible from the past

And from our futures

Spreading weblike into everything we touch

Love is never lost

// Eōten

Remembrance

I remember you with taste

Honey spices apple

Each bird call you once heard

Symbols on the door

My fingers brush the wool

Dyed your blue

The warmth of the hearth

We share through my remembrance

The children’s hair you’ve known this joy

Mixed with weariness

So I remember as I sing

And earth the holly

And bake the bread