Come down from the hills

[Guest guest]

Come down from the hills.

Declare then fighting done.

Be bold. Declare victory

Even when the temple is wrecked

And the tyrants have not retreated,

Only coiled back like a snake,

Prepared to strike again.

 

Come down. Try to remember

A life gentled by daily acts

Of domestic faith: the pot

Set to boil, the bed made up,

The table set in calm expectation

That when the sun sets

We will still be here.

 

Come down and settle.

Unlearn the years of hiding.

Light fires that can be seen for miles,

That dance and sparkle and warm

The frozen marrow. Set lamps

In the window. Declare your presenc,

Your loyalties, the truths

For which you do not expect to have to die.

 

It would be a miracle you say,

To carve such a solid life

Out of the shell of fear.

I say you are the stuff

>From which such miracles are made.

 

by Lynne Ungar

 

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Sister Usha Devi

Founder, Divinely Female and worshipper of the Sacred Flame that shines inside

every woman

 

 

 

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