Soil beneath words
a shared breath is waiting
before we speak now

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We can be here
because the earth carries us
because it calls
for our attention.

Beneath our words
lie soil, water, and time.

Something older than all of us.

Something that will live on after us.

The questions we wisely
can ask ourselves
are not about being right
but about taking responsibility
for the whole.

Not about ownership alone
but about stewardship.

Not only about us
but about those who come
after us.

Let us listen from the heart
and
speak and act
as people who share land
on Earth.

Listen,
now that the future
is in the room.

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The future listens
breathing with us in our lives
before actions are born