gonna take a little

rest today

from the resistance

living in times

of injustice, pandemic, and insurrection

is taxing

keeping up the good trouble

is demanding

body, mind, and spirit

in this age

adrift so far from God

can be dispiriting

gonna rest up

binding up wounds

find my repose

the activist

the bodhisattva

the wounded healer

shall return

re-energized

warriors of the heart

Herb Stone

here&now working poetry

January 17, 2021

art image ‘Savasana Chakra

Garden’ by Kimberly Russick

(reader’s note: Savasana is the ‘corpse

pose’ in yoga which is traditionally

used as the last pose of a class and is

a state of deep relaxation also used to

relieve stress and trauma. Combined with

yoga nidra meditation we enter a state of

consciousness between waking and sleeping

in which we are deeply relaxed while

fully conscious. Namaste!)