Taproot

The roots of your connection

go down deep —

Like comfrey, they reach into the subsoil,

pulling up the minerals

that rise from ancient bedrock.

Whatever artifice has been applied,

whatever degradation of the soil,

you are equipped

to tap the primal nutrient

and bring it back

into the cycle of life.

Don’t ever think that you can be defeated —

Like comfrey, if they chop you,

you will come back stronger,

by virtue of your simple insistence

on the right of life to thrive,

and of each living thing to manifest

just what it is —

not made for any purpose other than its own

and its essential link to everything.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 4, 2013