Creation often needs two hearts

Feeling hella nostalgic today, friends. I can't over-share quite yet, but this poem captures my sentiments exactly.

Motheroot
BY Marilou Awiakta

Creation often
needs two hearts
one to root
and one to flower
One to sustain
in time of drouth
and hold fast
against winds of pain
the fragile bloom
that in the glory
of its hour
affirms a heart
unsung, unseen.

Reprinted from Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom, by Marilou Awiakta, Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1993