heat and protest

what it means to lead a life of love right now

love right now is garbage can barricades

tear gas thrown right back to its source

pulling tight on to your loves, arm in arm

love right now is remembering who belongs to this land

who knows how to tend to this soil here

and these plants here

and this integrity always

because this land has been stolen, and begs for rematriation

the only virus is the illusion and enactment of white supremacy, of

patriarchy, of all systems of hierarchy that nature does not recognize

love right now is claiming our lives as precious, uncontrollable, and bound together

we have always had the technology to protect each other

real, true love will always be worth protecting

love right now is hot + fast + quick in the face of those who have forgotten love, and

the stakes have been this high

and,

love is the unfurling of your fascia in gentle hands that know you

the resonance created when your body and voice is a tuning fork, and truth is clear

and vibrates.

love moves at all paces sometimes all at once

it meets the urgency that this moment requires with fierce integrity and

it stretches and expands wide, wide, wide enough to encapsulate all that has ever been and all that will ever be

the blueprint of health and tools of resistance in all of our ancestors, seeds that we carry and hope to grow

murmurations in water that always moves, i’m always amazed that

there are infinite scales of love

a mystery technology we devote ourselves to

with vigor and initiation and recognition and pain and breath of life and

so

what are your ways of loving right now - in this hot fiery decay that reminds you why

we’re actually here?