The Rising Times

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

These are the rising times,

the rising of the sweet potency

within your soul.

The rising of humanity

to meet its greatest potential.

You know it.

You feel it.

Deep within your root,

there is a quivering.

It’s true.

It’s that uncertainty.

It’s that chaos.

It’s that which you fear

will shake you to your core.

Bless you,

I hope it will.

These are the rising times.

Let your authentic power rise.

Let your voice fly on

impassioned thermals,

high,

like a hawk kettling amidst the gods.

These are the rising times.

Stand up for what you believe in.

Stand up for those who have

been beaten down,

whatever their creed or form.

Stand up because humans are

not designed to crawl indefinitely,

And now is the time.

These are the rising times.

These are the rising times.

Raise your arms high above your head.

Look up.

You’re a vast being in a vast universe.

How lucky you are to be here now.

Be here now.

These are the rising times.

Glory to the phoenix for

teaching us that ashes are not

an end point,

but a bed for consummating that

which is destined to be reborn.

Believe in the heat and glow.

These are the rising times -

and I’ll stand beside you

as we see these times through.

Standing together -

that’s all She has ever wanted for us.

Stand up and stand together.

It’s really that simple for us

to become fully human.

The sun has been showing us how

every morning,

and the moon, every night -

Rising…

Did you realize?

These are the rising times.

© 2010-2019/Jamie K. Reaser

Published in "Note to Self: Poems for Changing the World from the Inside Out" 

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