So That We Can Grow

~ be arachnid, reptile, amphibian ~

Gustav Klimt ‘Water Serpents’

What we don’t know is

We all must molt

Like snakes and hatchlings

So that we can grow

Shed this and that

Beliefs and suchlike

Talk to roots of trees

Share sap and salts

For one must eat to grow.

Learn to sip hidden dewdrops

Spilled with generosity

By indigo stars

Soak up lyrics snatched by winds

That roam rivers of ice, sift

Through poor man’s garbage

And undulate past us

Like ribbons of moonlight

Begging to come home

Toss smiles here and there

Give away embraces

To friend and foe

— What are we saving them for —

A balance, you see?

We give, we take.

We take we give.

So that we can grow…

Farida Haque

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