Prayer for All of Our Children
Prayer for All Our Children
group poem by the participants in “they have already learned to dream of dying: audre lorde and an intergenerational imperative for peace”
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“I’m speaking here not only about those children we may have mothered and fathered ourselves, but about all our children together, for they are our joint responsibility and our joint hope.”
- Audre Lorde in her Keynote Speech for the National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference, Oct 13, 1979
May our children play at the edges of the world that was
May our children play a new world into existence.
May our children play undulled by the sharp edges of the world
May our children play with the skulls they are given until they are not skulls anymore
May our children play with flowers, with grief
May our children play with their dreaming
May our children play in the light of the amethyst crystals
May our children play beneath the light of the full moon
May our children play in the web we are always spinning together.
May our children play until their hearts are full.
May our children play amongst kittens running.
May our children play in the most gentle of tenderness
May our children play brightly and safely
May our children play without fears without borders
May our children play without shame.
May our children play without any forced gender determining how they play.
May our children play in safety and amidst abundance.
May our children play fearlessly
May our children play without being seen as a threat
May our children play outdoors in the rain.
May our children play past sundown
May our children play up middle white oak holler
May our children play loudly
May our children play with abandon
May our children play every string, beat every drum, and sing aloud every sound that arises with in them.
May our children play with their voices, and loudly.
May our children play alongside all the brightest colors.
May our children play the songs we dreamed we could
May our children play their way into the worlds we dreamed for them
May our children play held in community
May our children play with self-permission knowing it is core to power.
May our children play knowing they are whole magical and loved
May our children play knowing the world is abundant and built for them.
May our children play in safety and creative abandon
May our children play imaginatively and without limitation
May our children play, backhavers abundant around them.
May our children play and remind us of who we are, not who we’ve been conditioned to be.
May our children play in the roots of our trees while they are simultaneously lifted into the branches, warmed by the sun.
May our children play with each other, having learned- or having taught us, love across difference.
May our children play in co-creation with all our relations, catching sounds, songs and rhythems that connect us all in consciousness and joy.
May our children play in this intergalactic moment that transcends all timelines, in the heavenly spiderweb of our ancestral prayer, in the healing balm of their own futuredreams.
May our children play with the impossible with ease.
May our children play like flowers freely flying in the wind.
May our children play and remember and remember.
May our children play unendingly.
May our children play with us.
May our children play within us.
May our children play as children
May our children still play when they are elders
May our children play so that we may remember that once we were children and our elders prayed for us to play.
May our children play play play
May our children play!
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