# Love & solidarity

We welcome ourselves in
To a world we long to meet
At a gathering that feels like luxury
When the climb to change feels this long and that steep.

But when we practice being present
It's not about escaping from the fight
It's about readying our foundations
To hold more people through the night.

This is love. This is resistance. This is solidarity.
We learn to feel it in our bones right here
So that we can feel it in the streets

Disrupting all the patterns
That we have known from old.
It takes more than just campaigning
If we want to dismantle narratives we were sold.

Every single slow and thoughtful conversation
Is a rehearsal for the time
When we've got to tell that judge, that cop, that bailiff
That if it's my neighbours problem, it's also mine.

This is love. This is resistance. This is solidarity.
Slow down to feel it in your bones right here
So that you can feel it in the streets.

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