“Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.”

Joy Harjo, Remember

This poem sounds like a mantra and reads like a spell. It reminds us how we all come from stardust generated from the sun, atoms colliding and melting into one another, particles moving into waves when seen from a different perspective. As Fritjof Capra says in The Tao of Physics, “all particles can be transmuted into other particles; they can be created from energy and vanish into energy”. Everything inside us, around us and in-between us is energy flowing, falling and rising, and poetry itself is energy, the purest of all kinds. It’s magic and fire. I think this poem also is a reminder of how fluid, relative and impermanent our human shell actually is, if compared to everything surrounding us. It also helps us see how impermanence and fluidity can free ourselves in becoming more than one and not just one. There’s no gap, no distance between ourselves and everything else coming near us, embracing us, and this should open our minds to a leveling off of hierarchies among elements, people, phases. We are not more important than a tree or the other way round, we are all equally singing electric, kissing each other in endless recognition, energy exploding into us and in the inside-out of us. Remembering this is crucial, because it can help us disengage from any possible dichotomy, be it the body and mind divide or the us-versus-them diatribe, to finally see harmony and move past rage and emotional preoccupations.