SHAMBHALA WARRIORS, HOPE-FILLED HEARTS

This is the time the ancestors
told us about,
when the rainbow race will rise,
when the Shambhala warriors
will stride through
the halls of power,
their weapons only
compassion and insight,
ethics and integrity.

It is time for The Great Turning,
from the ways of death
to the ways of
harmony and connection.

I hear your discouragement.
I feel it, too.
We are alive at
this moment in time
to help with the Great Shift
from darkness to light,
from the ways of war
to the ways of peace.

The Prophecy promises
a thousand years of peace.
It will not come in our time,
but it is good to know that
it will come again,
that buffalo will once more
carpet the landscape,
that people will live once again
with the land and its creatures,
that whales and wolves and bears
will one more time be
at home on and supported by
the land and waters,
and will no longer starve.

The ways of patriarchy
have lived past their time.
May we women rise,
plant trees, protect the living waters,
grow food and share it,
refuse to allow our fresh-cheeked children
to be fed to the war machine.

Time to put aside the ways of death
and to embrace the ways of life.
Peace will never be won
with guns and bombs.

Time to awaken from the nightmare
and dream a better dream.
Time for the Shambhala warriors
to arrive.



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