Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam; Our Promise Land

Grow towards the sun.

Smile bright!

When times are tough:

Reach deeper into your roots,

Until it grows out of your belly,

Back into your umbilical chord.

Send and receive love from your mother,

Nourishing the center,

Of the Earth’s fiery inner core.

Breathe!

Create!

Become a steward of the land:

Of your people,

Of ALL people.

We live on one Earth!

The same water

Rained on Adam, Eve, Manu, Moses, and Jesus.

Evaporated, condensed, and fell.

Evaporates, condenses and falls.

And rains on us.

It washed away

From the highest mountaintops

To the salty seas.

Cry, fight,

Accept that pinch of salt.

Let it go

With a belly laugh!

But don’t lose that chord.

So what!

Big deal!

My bad.

Look at a Banyan tree!

Rooted in the soil;

Reaching for the heavens

With its leaves, trunk

AND

Roots- Aerial Roots

Stable, steady, sensitive, aware.

You have become that!

Give your shade bountifully.

Become that opulent home for others.

Beautiful Lush, green, abundant you,

Look to the stars.

You are the promise!

This is our.promise land!

Today is the present gift!