Evidence

Evidence

Descending the thin track
Of inherited memory
I arrive at the bubbling springs
Of first humanness – 
& it seems a forlorn
& forgotten place
With few reminders of humanities
Singular promise

But looking deeper, past the rot and dust
Of human greed and destructiveness
I see multitudes of tiny golden threads
Of creativity, compassion
& sacrifice
Woven into the fading fabric
Of Humanity

& my heart’s hit by an unexpected surge
Of the love, tenderness and intelligence
Which carries and births me

& there’s fire in the waters
& hope and resistance
Which is why I return again and again to
Te Waikoropupū

Because the Spirit of the Waters burns here
& it is she who births and rebirths
& sees us in our struggles,
Through all the tragedies
& triumphs of human history
& in the daily labyrinth
Of human life

& it is she who loves
In, and through us
In the large and the small

& she will never forsake us
Whether we stand
Or fall

~

Pākehā ‘Evidence’ on behalf of the Sacred Feminine who manifests at Te Waikoropupū Springs, and who continues to work in and through humanity despite our many failures, challenges and struggles.