May we remember...

A Blessing for Aliveness

May we remember
that we are reconstituted stars;
particles and waves
coalescing and coagulating
in space-time.

May we remember
that we are earthly creatures;
archipelagos of bone,
shifting tectonics,
marrow-rich.

May we remember
that we are 60% water;
streams and rivers and lakes and oceans
of liquid life,
longing.

May we remember
that we are vibrant matter;
enlivened, electric, energetic excitations
flickering and firing
in a great erotic dance.

May we remember
that we are full of hot air;
inflating and deflating our way
through gaseous fields
of recycled atmosphere.

May we remember
our molecular ancestry;
an ancient unbroken lineage,
every cell of us
once another being. 

May we remember
our place in the family of things;
our webs of relating
as networks of siblings.
Kinship not kingship.

May we remember
that we are teeming with life;
entire planetary ecosystems
to our microbial inhabitants,
cultivating their corporeal habitats.

May we remember,
when we take our time to land,
the scattered ones can find their way back
to their constellations of belonging;
unique ecologies of being.

May we remember
as our bodies soften their borders,
fully dilated, unclenching the world,
membranes infinitessimally thinned;
that we feel the world feeling us.

May we remember.

And come back home to ourselves.