Off the Top

I've started saying

"See you later"

More than "goodbye"

Because "goodbye" feels so

Final

"See you later" feels more open-ended

More than that

I want you to know

That I'm expecting

Plotting

To see you again

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Climate change happens

Floods a country or two

And you call it

"God's punishment

For homosexuality

And miscegenation"

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I want to be a good ancestress

Not so much a LEGACY legacy

But an actual tangible record

Of how much I cared

I want

To measure a part of my life

In how much I cared

"Nothing matters", but some things matter

Those things that matter

Those things that I care about

Somehow

Keep me tethered here

I realize my responsibility

As a land steward

One lesson I've internalized

Is that

I am truly a part of the Earth

From the "fire" that warms my body,

The wind in my lungs,

The rock that makes up my bones

And the water flowing throughout me

I need

To take care of the Earth

Being vegan isn't enough

So I must consider

Indigenous perspectives

The Bottom Billions' perspectives

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