To Hold

To Hold

To hold

the light

is what I want

to receive the rain,

a part of this land

to be a stream into a river growing

and to carry the fallen leaves

and the grey silt,

down to where the river meets the sea

into finite comfort

and the land here, full of trust

still keep and witness

the fellow need

the way the river is always new

taking part in the healing

after the journey

which is our life.

Poem discussed with Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini.

In dialogue with Linda Hogan’s «To be Held».

In the mix