What can we say to the children,

as we watch the waves rush in?

“Apocalypse” gives them no room

to imagine their emancipation.

 

What is love in these times:

cradling, coddling, condoning…

catastrophizing, condemning, collapsing,

or calling in, calling out, calling up courage?

 

Our children need courage

to care, to acknowledge, to witness, to change.

One world is ending, so another begins.

Prepare them, prop them up, propel them.

 

Find your own courage

to set them free from fear,

free from fate, from false fathers,

free to find the future for us all.