Seedbed

My body is made from fire fire, flesh and blood just like my mother who holds me clay and earth and mud My body is made from water who flows and carries through protecting, healing, easing with ocean force and gentle dew My spirit is made of sunshine vision, heart and light rising from rich, dark rootedness into the world of sight My spirit is made of ether emerging from within to reach the breath of consciousness the connectedness of kin When I lay my body down in sacrifice, in birth I offer myself to Creation I return myself to Earth But my spirit joins the many moving freely through storm and dreams to flow like balm, like smiles, like solace to all earthborn beings For now I am a seedbed for all that spins and comes to be as all that came before me was for me when born a seed