There are places

"There are places in you
Where thousands of bright, tiny flowers
Open each morning to the sun
In meadows as vast as the sky.

An ancient alchemy courses through your bones.
It speaks in feathers and stones and
precious metals and the footprints of mandalas
left by the stories we tell with our lives.

Rewild yourself.

Until green tendrils sprout from your fingernails
And lichen swathes your eyebrows.

Rewild yourself.

Until your roots spread and uncoil and
Writhe down through soil and rock.

Rewild yourself.

Rise up into your magnificence and
Take your place among the constellations.

Rewild yourself.

The Earth is her own medicine.
Be yours."

~ Caroline Mellor

art by Karolina Waniewska