a Bvelavian prayer (steal you)

this is a Bvelavian prayer

reach you
reach for parts that are floating through air
reach the parts that have never been shared

the struggle soft
there is no blood
another now trees a feather to know the wind
 signals prudent measure
 and stirs its jinn to spirit
what carries on to neat campaign
is godly - summoned
and bears your name
to contrive within lines of common state
a pure space
of sober mind
 i settle in – invited

reach you
reach those parts that have always been scared
keep you
in the arms where your story is cared for
see you
in more times of reflective repair
be you
place and time that your senses are flared

to love the scars that are conjured or there  
does it steal you
to beat the heart that alerted my stares

why this is a prayer is that i need you
not to live
not to know love
not to escape loneliness
nor to do well in my endeavors
these i have found ways of succeeding at on my own - that i will soon have mastered

what i need of you that i am incapable of alone
that each of us is somehow inept or adept at in their own state
is surviving
i can not survive
those i love can not survive
those who are innocent
whose only offense is ignorance of the indifference or malice that may lay them
and those against us
may not survive

if you, as societies of interdependent beings, communities of common and aligned interests, and  individual agents of distinguishing significance,
continue to preserve what is chiefly and persistently eroding the social viability and ecological compatibility of our species–in fostering subsistence as our social emphasis and aspiration; and scarcity that perpetuates the systems and social designs that deny, disadvantage, and continue to disconnect us all
scarcity that accepts the circumscription that "getting by" is the best most of us can expect
scarcity rather than conservation, circumscription as discipline, and fearfully shriveling as opposed to confidently developing

to meet you
mean you
breathe you
and for those i represent, the Bvelavi­–those within any movement whose agenda is consensus across ideologies on which living designs and practices to preserve as life-serving and which to abandon as obsolete to thriving wellness for all–the chief and persistent culprit of this subsistence is colonized acquiescence to the Sacred Money and Market story that is foisted on living society by dictating interests as the only viable reality; its systemic imbalances; and the deliberation of people and states that are resolute in these frustrations
as if this realism were capable of ever maturing Coexistence to justly "serve all"; of resourcing opportunity in the world that is at all socially equitable; or of providing universally inclusive solutions to the problems before us
believe what you will. this is among your prerogatives as sentient beings, and perhaps your archetypal roles in the weavings of fabricated existence
though i urge you-preserve faith in that which you soulfully desire and envision as you forge it–but believe in what there is evidence for
and there is ample evidence for imagining what were once impossibilities and demonstrating what we necessarily must become to realize them

how do we?
by understanding that the distinct considerations of any beings, in any way that matters to thriving possibilities anywhere, are not isolated within struggles that are fundamentally aboriginal or immigrant;
or essentially African, Arctic/Antarctic, Asian, European, Oceanian, North; Central; or South American
but are more often than not distinctively, yet commonly, faced by every being with a determination to honor the meaningfulness of their existence

by becoming alliances of social change agents where our genius is acknowledged and synergized
rather than philosophically culturally or ethnically concentrated
and by resourcing social development within regenerative frameworks of collectively thriving rather than exploitive or disadvantaging frameworks of competitively prevailing

and by not expecting the requisite shifts to happen necessarily in this moment
 this generation
 this lifetime
but rather with the time frame needed to unravel what has taken half a millennium of history to institute

we approach abundance in life by beginning to believe in it–then deciding, alongside those of concerting spirit, to uphold the imagined and manifest it
a new realism is called for-along with entirely re-engineered and re-imagined resourcing models that abandon economics which concentrate wealth and assets to the excessive favor of a disproportionate few

and this is among the callings of ­the Bvelavi­…
supporting thriving archetypes in the “Sacred Life and Living Earth" story
and through enterprise models that are anchors in, and bridges to, emerging designs that preserve as sacred not only ancestral wisdom–but essential resources that must convert back to and remain “The Commons”
our warrior examples for this include the widely observed Jackson-Kush model of community by Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, and the lesser known communal asset resourcing currenciesof the Chevil Até Project, being developed bioregionally

those of you whose callings of purpose or inclinations of spirit stir in such verdicts of reckoning, i beseech thee to signal thy assents to those of us intending to survive–we are in need of you
you are every conception of alignment that exists
in touching you i extend and fulfill myself
i mature
i observe the divine
mine and yours, and those taking shape as other

which is to pray let us awaken to what resides within
and seeks to exercise widely-openly
 to synergize
the torches flared between us
into a common blaze
so that i, at long last
you, consensually
and we, in long standing
may conjoiningly and thrivingly be

know you
as the name of a mystery braved
steal you
from every stain that your history pains
show you
read your name in a way that prepares
reach you
see you
be you
seize and hold you

and keep you