the constant constant

“It’s not our work to have the answer.

It’s our work to be ready when called.”

– Bayo Akomolafe

It’s dawning on me that
our frames of change are what’s at fault.
The short, sharp act.
The efficient manoeuvre.
The successful campaign.
None of these have all advancing
when the change is run.
All these think change can be “done”.

What if we grew our way out of the pits we’ve dug?
What if no one had to lose?
Not even the critters.
Not even the planet.
What if we changed change?
And in changing change,
we changed ourselves.

I see a path.
It moves across the field
of simple ends and othered change.
I see us taking it together
and making new — exciting — ways!