be ye not shoulder-shrug about healing shine                      you carry
like emergency peppermint in your ancestor’s purse

             say yes 

to the bubbling 
inside your rest
the reimagined beat 
of a new day 

            say yes 
 
to saying no
to things that 
sour your sweetest exhales

be ye not discouraged by dented parts of you
bending for love & balance in a world off centered
& dizzied by stars & stripes of greed & gluttony
hate & narcissism              disrespect & disregard
the absurdity of a place that deems you                                 gold spectacle 
yet wretches your face

terrified of the way you raise vibrations
across every impending doom. be steadfast dear angel
stay with us. the crepuscular of your soul—gallantly 
teeming           the source of your being a cosmic quilt
never too worn out to drape us                                                with opulent legacy