Sharing another of the writings that was voted in the finalists category for our recent Pen in Hand contest, The Sky Belongs to All of Us- by Nicole Nicholson. :) ~Kara~ THE SKY BELONGS TO ALL OF US- by Nicole Nicholson I once heard of a man of spirit who put on a suit of flesh and cracked his chest open to prove that LOVE was not just a NOUN but a VERB that we are called to conjugate: to grow its fruit on every human tongue tree rooted in electric brain soil, migratory paths, and double helix souls dripping the dust of creation from their heels; to wield it wildly with river-lined palms, cradles of embrace built from bone-built and skin-soft arms, and feet that forget the pain of miles and chasms crossed. This perfect love casts out fear, an elderly disciple tells us from the pages of time; he saw how lines can divide, pile people like pebbles atop each other in lines of sediment and strata when we humans were meant to be trees, growing next to each other and all wicking the same sunshine, air, rain, and love into our cells. That elderly disciple has long since disappeared, merging into sky-born breath; the Master who taught him shares with him and us that same lambent sky light and cosmos birthing bright diamond pink-prick points, singing to call us home. That sky, my friends, belongs to us all: to those who see the flaming heart in Christ’s cracked open ribcage; to those who call another Divine and Holy; to those who only see skin, chromosomes, and bones buried in stone; to every soul in the double-helix rainbow; and to every conjugation of that verb TO LOVE – and I of the computer mind and glass-shatter heart want to share that sky with you.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:37:50 +0000