Extract from ‘Kinship is the Basic
Principle of Philosophy’
… For hundreds of years
certainly for thousands
Our Native elders
have taught us
‘All My Relations’
means all living things
and the entire Universe
‘All Our Relations’
they have said
time and time again…
Do you doubt still?
a rock alive? You say
it is hard!
it doesn’t move of its own accord!
it has no eyes!
it doesn’t think!
but rocks do move
put one in a fire
it will get hot won’t it?
1/
2/
That means
won’t you agree?
that its insides are moving
ever more rapidly?…
So don’t kid me my friend,
rocks change
rocks move
rocks flow
rocks combine
rocks are powerful friends
I have many
big and small
their processes, at our temperatures,
are very slow
but very deep!
I understand because, you see,
I am part rock!
I eat rocks
rocks are part of me
I couldn’t exist without
the rock in me
We are all related!
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