End of Summer Energy Prayer
You ask me for A Vibe— an End of Summer Energy prayer
But how did you get through Summer??? I haven’t yet
Because the weather’s always Summer somewhere
Whether or not it’s also always a warming climate
The fall of sweat on a sidewalk, just one domino into another
Ours carbon on heat on oceans on hurricane effects stacking
And/or heat on drought on wildfire on more evacuating, further
Never-relaxing into melting rubber-banded bound energy snapping,
Hinges on popping pockets of localized heat, not temperature-—
But people. A lot of people, all saying “no more” —and more, what?
No Summers so oil-drenched to neverend in hunger for more
Not for more sun-oil, gas, or coal powering our orbit
But for The Good Sun, more Life, more Attention— to the Living
To the cycles within cycles, to every being lost and unforgotten
To those fatigued, fighting, trying at winning, and unforgiving
Finding something better than nostalgia, renewable paths trodden
Here’s my prayer to cycle this Summer to a close:
May we release ourselves from Greed’s grip and with the Seasons flow.
— Adam Powers