Category: The Children

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Honour the Children

Honour the Children

What she witnessed today again gave her great pain
And she remembered it happening – again and again
We must speak our truth – forget anger and shame
Violence to others – all must stop and refrain

Refrain from repeating the actions we’ve seen
From parents and teachers and others who’ve been
Role models who have lost it, let loose or been mean
Hurt us with roughness or language obscene

Oh how can we stop this – a disease that has spread?
Thru generations perhaps but now there’s more to dread
The movies, TV, texts, even songs
Distorting a beautiful world and a grandmother mourns

Throughout this world,  affecting all living things…
The children, blessed children with sweetness are born
We love them, protect them yet soon brews a storm:

….A child defies, choosing its own way of seeing, expresses its own understanding, using its own tone….
….An adult or older child corrects them and blocks who they are
and misses the opportunity to hear their perspective….

Oh let them be who they were born to be
Let them be who they are here to be
They chose their families and will teach them too
If given the chance, they’ll share wisdom with you

Where two or more gather, friends, family or by birth
Country, race, religion or who came first
Differences can be a problem if we let them be
and some choose to comment on what they see

Who’s responsible for action or language that’s rough?
Is that who we want to the future entrust?
Can we not see the richness in our cultures’ diversity
and tolerate and honour our different complexity?

Oh guide us dear Ancestors, Elders, Great Spirit
We need help right now – surely you can hear it
How do we allow the journeys of others
when what they do harms the little ones – sisters and brothers?

Prayers and visions for how we can change
Surely the answers are somewhere in range
Carry the Light and the Love to the ones
Who are lacking the patience for this world’s daughters and sons

Let us receive the wisdom that’s there
And show to our young ones just how much we care
Gentleness, kindness to these loving, sweet beings
If we all lived like sweet children we’d enjoy loving feelings


gagi     TBL

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The Perfect Storm

The Perfect Storm

The perfect storm has come and gone
We now take stock – time to move on
This storm did not need wind or rain
And what was cleared did not cause pain

The day it felt like none before
A heaviness was felt by some and more
Emotions flowed and tears released
The past – it blurred then was deceased

The storm it came to clear the past
Washed away what had held us like a cast
And blown away were the memory loops
That held us in our low energy soups

As we take stock – what has been left?
The power of the storm was purposeful, deft
We have been left exposed and clear
With the purity of a child held dear

And then with awe we see the gems
And we examine them closely with our lens
The treasure that was left, exposed by the storm
Is all we need to be reborn

LOVE with all its warmth and glow
And WISDOM – garnered – its seeds to sow
Dear ancestors, and now we, are gifting these gems
Let us magnify them now through our collective lens
Focusing to see and open the end
Of this universe and to the next ascend


gagi        13/08/21

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To the Children Beyond

To the Children Beyond

To the children beyond
I give you freedom
To the children beyond
I give you love

To the children beyond
I give you joyful living
To the children beyond
I present the dove

To the children beyond
I gift you gentleness
To the children beyond
I give you sight

To the children beyond
I pass my wisdom
To the children beyond
I give you life

And what is life
But a map without any places
A map that you yourselves will draw
As you explore

And Mother Earth is the map
That you will draw upon
And it is a map that will be shared
With others too

To draw a line from here to there
There is one rule
And as your elder, i can teach you
It is my school

To draw a line upon the map
You must have travelled it
And carried with you and kept intact
A heart of love

This line of love
Will intersect with others drawing
And soon the lines so carefully placed
Will weave the New

And the journeys of those before –
Your loving ancestors’
Have left faint lines to guide you
As you explore

And we are here
To support and share our wisdom
And you are there
To co-create and dream the New

Blessed be the children
Of the new creation
Blessed be the vision quest
Of those unborn

Blessed be my loved ones
Who now can journey
And draw their maps
From the fabric of their hearts

A gift to you
A feather pen
It is your mother’s

I gift to you
My love and joy
It is your ink

We gift to you
The courage now to move onway
We gift to you
The wisdom garnered to make a choice

Carry love in every step
As you move forward
The future’s yours, you have the gifts
And we rejoice

Blessed be our dear children
Of the present
Blessed be
Our dear children of beyond

Always, yes always
You will carry
The strength connecting us
It is
OUR LOVE BOND

 

gagi     TBL