Poem: Run to the Water

POEM
Run to the Water
Run to the water
To rivers overflowing
Waves of the collective
Dream and rise with us
Fortress of our ancestors
Surround and guide
Echoing of legacies
Across the moonlit sky
In spirit and in struggle
Our movement is found
Protest, march, shout 
Pray, rest, sing
Dance, laugh, eat
Bear witness to Love
Threads of resistance
Unravel injustice 
Hope is our discipline
Liberation our vision
Streams of living water
Are washing over us
Can you feel the mist?
The thunderous waves
Pounding in our souls?
We are alive, we are breathing, we are here
Run to the water
To rivers overflowing
Humanity as one
Revolution is rising
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Streams of Living Water by Chris Yi Suh
Chris 은미 Yi Suh (she/they) is a queer diasporic
Korean artist, writer, and spiritual care practitioner. Their
spiritual practice draws from the wisdom of healing
justice lineages, the embodied teachings of interbeing
with Plum Village, Christian liberation theologies, and
Korean ancestral rituals. As a community facilitator and
retreat curator, Chris holds sacred space primarily for
women, femmes, queer, trans, and gender expansive
folks of color. Their approach to spirit care is shaped by
a decolonial, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and inter/
intrareligious perspective, guided by the intention of
both personal and collective liberation.