Invocation to the Seed - Doug Gosling

[Larry Robinson]

Invocation to the Seed

 



We have not existed apart from you.  
We would not exist without you.  
We will not survive without you.


You are the germ.  You are the grain.

You wait in the darkness of black earth many, many times longer than you might live above ground.  What are you doing down there?  What are you dreaming down there?

You are so many brilliant ideas waiting to happen, wanting to happen, all the while holding the memory of your old stories.

You have been beckoned by the Moon, invigorated by showers, warmed and lit by the sun and sung by our Tribes into being.

You have been scarred and split open into birth by scarification, frozen in permafrost, sparked by the wildest of fires.

You have survived the hostile acids of the gut and the ferment of the moldering mother fruit.

You are the kernel of our food and medicine, dye and fiber.  You sprout, rise up and unfold into our shade and shelter. 

You are the germ of the blossoms gathered into our most beautiful bouquets that hold the germs of the blossoms of our most beautiful bouquets.

You float the lightest breeze and fly the Jetstreams. You have stuck-tight to the nap of the backs of the furriest ones and hitch-hiked on feathers. 

You have floated from source to mouth of the great rivers and fallen over seething waterfalls.  You have been held inside bladders rafting round the wide oceans.
 
You have been released in clouds, parachuted and helicoptered to safe landings, exploded from splitting legumes, catapulted from capsules.  

You have been shucked and threshed from your mother’s ovaries and been winnowed by the wind and human breath. 

You have been folded into cuffs and carried lovingly to new lands.  You’ve been smuggled across borders. 

You have circulated as currency.
      
You have been grateful in our long marriage with your impossible generosity.

You offer hope and give us Faith even in these Dark Times. 
 
You are embedded in our history and we are inseparable from yours.
  
We would not exist without you!  
And you would not exist without us!
We will not survive without you.  


We must honor you for who you are.



Bless the seeds and bless us.

Make them a part of your story and may you be a part of theirs.  

And remember when you harvest the seeds, you have a responsibility to love them deeply for who they are.


	- Doug Gosling
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