Birth and Death and Things that go bump in the night

Birth and Death and Things that go bump in the night.

This is what children need to know, and we adults have mostly forgotten

How to live until we die.

Sacredness of nature
Sacredness of life
Sacredness of death
Sacredness of moving the spirit of the deceased one on to the light
Every one,
Everyone
Every person
Is a mystic
Listen listen listen
To one’s own song
Listen listen listen
To one’s own heart

Is that you auntie? When I hear the wind
Is that you grandma? When the technical does not work
We will learn to honor and remember the dead.
Re member those gone before us
Into those coming along into our shoes
Walking the path
The gentle path
The knowing path
The proud path

Honor birth
Honor death
Fear it not