Ash Monday Covenant for Earth Day 2013



Is it not enough to sift among the ashes
When we shall finally say
Once and for all
This is enough--no more
Once and for all

For we are only ever one and all
Once and for all
There is no us and them
no thine and mine

There is only we
the we of you--the we of I
The cosmic star charged,
ion of you and  I
earth bound
air borne
matter of all matter
scattered
recharged
incarnate
as leaf
as stone
as iron ore
once and for all

Is it not enough to sift among the ashes
for charred
and shattered bones
Like a phoenix the helix
strands  warp and weft
to weave
and bind
the strands of all beings
fur clad
feathered
scaled
serrated
veined
once and for all
we
the radiant spectrum
of sunlight 
sparks glance 
the dove’s ascending wing
bearing the flaming branch
the promise that
even among the flood of  ashes
we can hope
that once and for all
this shall be the last catastrophe
that once and for all
we will look into each other’s eyes
with the eyes of all beings 
and see our own eyes looking back
and once and for all
not hold back
not hold back
not hold back
This love so fine that
it wrests from each of us
the truth of who we are
Once and for all

M.K.R.F. 


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