LOVE ALL OUR RELATIONS

We have seen the burning edges
We have heard the silent cries
Forests falling out of memory
Smoke written across the skies

Waters carrying what we’ve broken
Names of creatures slipping by
Songs that never reached the morning
Echo in a quiet sky

We have felt the earth remembering
We have felt the possums trembling
Every step we did not see
Every root and wing and current
Still in deep relation be

We will not turn away
We will not call this normal
We will not leave the living behind

Not behind… not behind…
All our relations… not behind…

Who are they—the ones unheard?
The wing, the root, the fur, the flow

Our relations… our relations…
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ

The river, the soil, the hidden ones

All Our Relations… All Our Relations…

The broken places, the wounded lands

All Our Relations… All Our Relations…

We are not outside the sorrow
We are not beyond the thread
We don’t exist outside of nature
What we break, we feel tomorrow
What we heal shows our mettle
What we love is our salvation

Even now the seed is turning
Even now the breath is here
In the dark a life is learning
How to move through grief and fear

Love is not passive here
Love stands, love protects
Love repairs what it can
Love offers rescue and repair

Are you listening?
Are you aware?

Stand for the living… protect the living…
Repair what we can… repair what we can…

All Our Relations… All Our Relations…

Say no to harm where harm is rising
Say yes to life where life remains
Hold the line where truth is breaking
Break the cycle, shift the frame

Small hands moving change the current
Quiet choices bend the stream
What we tend begins to flourish
What we love becomes the dream
What we love becomes the dream

Even now… even now…
life is calling us forward

Calling us forward… calling us forward…
All our relations… are calling us home…

We are still in relation!
We are still in relation!
We are still in relation!
We are still in relation!

Across the seen and the unseen

We are still in relation
We are still in relation
To what has been and what will be

We will not turn away
We will not leave the living behind

All our relations… all our relations…
All our relations… we stand…
we pray
rejoin the hoop
love is the way
love is the way
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ
Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ