Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Steve Law - Lumbricus Terrestris

On a day when the world is weighty
Dark and dense with need
I want to be the earthworm
That gives itself over to tunneling
Its every movement an act
Of bringing spaciousness
And when minutes feel crushed by urgency
I want to meet the world wormlike
Which is to say grounded
Consistent, even, slow
No matter how desperate the situation
The worm does not tunnel faster
Nor burrow more
It knows it can take decades
To build fine soil
To whatever is compacted
The worm offers its good worm work
Quietly bringing porosity
To what is trodden, compressed
So often, in my rush to repair
I end up exhausted
Let my gift to the world be
My constancy, a devotion to openness
My willingness to be with what is
Let my gift to myself be patience, patience
As I tend what is dense and dark

Written by:
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

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