I have been feeling, as many have, overwhelmed with the chaos, violence, fear and destruction that is going on in our country as Trump and his sycophants, and surely the monied oligarchy behind him, has and is creating. I don't need to reiterate the loss of social services, the unstable economy, the repression of ICE, and the loss of our democracy and standing in the world community this has brought, in such a short time. This morning I call for the Justice of the Morrigan.
It makes me ill to see the way lies and deception, greed with no limits, has poisoned our lives. I wonder so often, how is it possible that we have such corruption, how is it possible everyone doesn't see "the Law of One", the truth that all of us, including all the other Beings on this beautiful planet, are interdependent? That what is done to another is ultimately done to each of us as well? How is this not obvious?
I've always loved this poem, which seemed to erupt from me when I was creating a mask for the Celtic Goddess of battle, justice, and lamentation in 1999. The message is about the entwinement of all experiences, a call to re-member that the real battle is the evolution of our souls into compassion and love, that fundamental evolutionary truth, especially now. I guess that's why, when I put together this collage to illustrate the poem, the threads of the Web had to be manifest in the drawing.
You who bring suffering to children:
May you look into the sweetest, most open eyes, and howl the loss of your innocence.
You who ridicule the poor, the grieving, the lost, the fallen, the inarticulate, the wounded children in grown-up bodies:
May you look into each face, and see a mirror. May all your cleverness fall into the abyss of your speechless grief, your secret hunger, may you look into that black hole with no name, and find....the most tender touch in the darkest night, the hand that reaches out. May you take that hand. May you walk all your circles home at last, and coming home, know where you are.
You tree-killers, you wasters: May you breathe the bitter dust, may you thirst, may you walk hungry in the wastelands, the barren places you have made. And when you cannot walk one step further, may you see at your foot a single blade of grass, green, defiantly green. And may you be remade by it's generosity.
And those who are greedy in a time of famine: May you be emptied out, may your hearts break not in half, but wide open in a thousand places, and may the waters of the world pour from each crevice, washing you clean.
Those who mistake power for love: May you know true loneliness. And when you think your loneliness will drive you mad, when you know you cannot bear it one more hour, may a line be cast to you, one shining, light woven strand of the Great Web glistening in the dark. And may you hold on for dear life.
Those passive ones, those ones who force others to shape them, and then complain if it's not to your liking:
May you find yourself in the hard place with your back against the wall. And may you rage, rage until you find your will. And may you learn to shape yourself.
And you who delight in exploiting others, imagining that you are better than they are:
May you wake up in a strange land as naked as the day you were born and thrice as raw. May you look into the eyes of any other soul, in your radiant need and terrible vulnerability. May you know yourSelf. And may you be blessed by that communion.
And may you love well, thrice and thrice and thrice,
and again and again and again
May you find your face before you were born.
And may you drink from deep, deep waters.
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