the dalai lama comes to colorado

moments of altarism

moments of altruism 

of giving 

of leaning in 

with a cup brimming

i am full 

i am filling 

i am washing away 

and drinking up 

the light 

the air 

the fluid movement that

flows from my limbs

i am learning to write again

i am remembering words

thank you to the poet healers of the world

the ones who persevere 

and thrive as resilient wild things 

we will burn the buildings down 

we will from an internal place

redesign the space 

inside our blood vessels, 

which will translate to the city streams 

and the paved roads 

(the body is the answer

the body is the site of social change)

the sidewalks will remember as they crumble 

and give way to the earth rising from beneath 

our feet, 

will remember and greet the earth 

walking will become discharge 

and we will be healing in every moment 

in every cell in every space in between