When You Stand

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

May your feet, here now, know the support of the Earth,

the mother of your mother’s mother’s mother and all

the mothers before her.

May, in this light, you know the guidance of the Sun,

the father of your father’s father’s father and all

the fathers before him.

May you know the sisterhood of women who

will embrace and hold space for your soul’s seed

to break and who, in their own way, pray that because

of this necessary breaking, there will emerge and grow

something that serves others without

demand of reciprocity.

May you know the brotherhood of men who

stand beside you as you stand beside them,

all familiar strangers, dedicated to protecting the ache

of uncertainty, difference, and belonging

so that we may liberate the fears that otherwise

divide, diminish, and destroy otherness.

May you stand in the presence of my gratitude.

Thank you for showing me where blessings are needed.

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

From "Bless this Day" (a work in progress)

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