LOCAL HERO OF LOVE

No need…
No need…
No need…

No need to be a superhero
Not above us…

No need to wear a crown
Walk among us…

Right here on this little corner
Right here…
Right here…
Right here…

Be a local hero of love
A local hero of love

Who knows the names on the block?
Who remembers?

Who notices who disappeared?
Who goes looking?

Who checks on the old man by the window?
Still breathing… still here…

Who makes the frightened feel less alone?
Stay with us…
Stay with us…
Stay with us…

I know somebody who knows everybody
Connect us!
Connect us!

Keeper of phone numbers
Keeper of introductions

Master of the coffee clutch
Master of the soup kitchen

Bring us together!
Bring us together!

The local network specialist
Call somebody…
Check on somebody…
Bring somebody…
Love somebody…
Love somebody!
Love love somebody!

No one falls through the cracks tonight

Not tonight…

The champion of “Let’s do lunch!”

Pull up a chair!

Soup on the table
Tea on the stove
Stories unfolding
Love getting old

Stay a little longer…
Stay a little longer…

A meal can change a week

Feed the people!
Feed the people!

A conversation can change a life
Listen deeply!
Listen deeply!
Listen deeply!

One more lesson after hours

Don’t give up!
Don’t give up!

One more chance
One more hour

Help us rise!
Help us rise!

Somebody believed in me
before I believed in myself

I and I remember…
I and I remember…

King of the block!
Wave to everybody!

Queen of the street!
Love everybody!
Love everybody!

Not through power—
Through presence!

Not through fear—
Through devotion!

The whole neighborhood breathes easier
when they walk outside

Chair of the community garden committee

Plant something!
Keeper of tomatoes
Keeper of compost
Keeper of pollinators

Grow something!
Growing basil
Growing peppers
Growing friendship
Growing trust
Growing food…
Growing healing…
Growing belonging…
Growing love…
Growing love!
Growing love!

Park prince feeding the birds at sunrise
Softly… softly…

Speaking kindly to living things
All our relations!

Even the pigeons know his footsteps
Even the stray cats wait nearby

Love leaves traces…
Love leaves traces…
Love leaves traces…

Master of the local theater!
Raise the curtain!
Holding costumes together with safety pins and prayer

Keep the dream alive!
Keep the dream alive!

Teaching nervous children how to sing out loud
Sing it!
Sing it!
Sing it!

We can do it!

Keeping beauty alive
in a tired world
Alive… alive… alive…

Civilization survives this way
This way…

Not only through governments
Not only through empires
Not only through power…

But through millions of ordinary souls

Showing up!
Showing up!
Showing up!

Millions of tiny local suns

Still shining!

Refusing to go dark
Refusing!
Refusing!
Refusing to go dark!

A smile can change a morning
Yes it can!

A meal can change a week
Yes it can!

A kindness can stop a heartbreak
Kindness dear!

Before it reaches the edge…

Hyper-local love…
Right here…

Hyper-local care…
Right now…

Changing the atmosphere
simply by being there

No need to be a superhero
No need…

Just become trustworthy
in small distances
Small distances…

Love your block
Love your street
Love your people
Love your trees

Make the circle complete
Complete… complete…

A local hero of love
Among the people…

A local hero of love
Still shining…

A local hero of love
Holding on to love!
love…here
love…now
love…
love…
love…
love…