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I Want To Live Like The Banyan
by huiying b. chan aka Dandelion
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i want to live like the Banyan
grow my roots so deep
i ground myself for millennia.
let me live like the Banyan
hold a firm spine
where others can rest
weightless to me.
let me live like the Banyan
be seen as sacred to all,
medicinal roots christened.
let me live like the Banyan
in storm & lightning
search for kin
sink my roots deeper
across space & time
find each other, entangled
embrace older than eternity
let me live like the Banyan
in engulfed darkness
withstand the test of time
when body becomes memory
memories become ordained
unwritten, unscribed, except in DNA
bodies transmit signals
across generations
to the place
i no longer exist
yet am still felt
in the air you breathe.
let me live like the Banyan
my very own life, the channel
for all that is.
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huiying b. chan aka Dandelion (he, him, keoi 佢) is a poet, ceremonialist, reiki practitioner, and educator from Brooklyn, NY on Lenape Land. he writes to connect with the unseen and unspoken, so we can feel and heal. huiying's work is published in Best New Poets 2021, The Offing, The Margins, and elsewhere. you can read more of his poetry at: dandelionspeaks.com and connect with him at: huiyingbchan.com.
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