Let's Build Love Instead
Eco Womb family of activists marching in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Human Rights March, January 20, 2019 - Portland, Oregon
no more pipelines
no more walls
no more borders
no more hate
let’s build love instead
no more social injustice
no more economic disparity
no more environmental racism
let’s build love instead
no more inequality based on our skin tone or gender or size or ancestry or religion
no more masculine power over the feminine
no more racism in any form period
let’s build love instead
no more toxins in our food
no more pesticides in our parks
no more big pharma in the pockets of the government
let’s build love instead
no more medical mandates
no more bans on our right to choose
no more stripping away of our bodily sovereignty
let’s build love instead
no more being alone in our mental struggles in a world driven by the stress that it creates
no more following the system that dictates our demise
no more trauma induced generational struggles that our kids now have to carry on
let’s build love instead
no more social media distractions
no more glowing screens between actual conversations
no more homes built with online dividers
let’s build love instead
no more glorified busyness
no more have to’s in climbing the ladders of success
no more productivity that counters connection
let’s build love instead
and
let’s connect, in person, hand in hand, in circle, together
let’s reach out to those in need and lift each other up when needed
let’s spend more time laughing around a dinner table, barefoot in the grass, and on the ground playing with our littles
let’s build a longer table and more bridges to ensure everyone has a place to be
let’s share the load, so we can all have downtime, creating a village, so no one person carries such a heavy burden
let’s get outside more often, climb more trees, run, walk, swim in the ocean
let’s connect in with ourselves and with nature and with those we love on a daily basis as the root of what builds us
let’s live more in the now and less in the past and in the future
for, we are the now, and within us all is the love that we need
instead of all the hurt and hate and anger and sickness that comes from all of that
let’s build love instead
with a little more love we may just realize that much of what brings us down and divides us up goes away
because love brings us together, love builds us up
build the love, share the love, spread the love, BE the love
let’s build love instead