Poetic Earth

Why Do You Fear Us?

Why do you fear the Outside Ones?
Is it because we fear not the Earth-
we breathe its dust,
and wear its dirt like skin?
We whisper with the trees,
and dance beneath moons unseen.

Why do you fear the Quiet Ones?
Is it because we move in stillness,
and speak in dreams?
We walk in shadows not to hide,
but to listen-
to watch paths not taken,
to foresee the unchosen.

Why is it so hard for you to understand?
Is it because you were raised behind glass-
shielded from the wild ways,
from the ones who move within winds
and look beyond the veil of this land?

We are not strange.
We are the soil-born,
the star-called,
the ones who remember
what you were taught to forget.

In heart and in truth.
By way of uncertainty.
The answer lies not in us-
but in you.