> [!custom-soil-type]- Note Details > - Type: [[Poem]] > - Topics: [[nature]], [[being]] > - Stage: [[soil ✨]] you were not born to be a machine, child can’t you feel the life inside of you the wildness that is your inheritance buried like the bones of your ancestors and all they created awaiting your excavation can you hear their voices _beckoning_ — they are within you deep within that hallowed cave inside your chest that is where this path will lead you and sometimes, you will fear the journey of course, you will doubt, and then you might remember these words and the way the sun warms your skin as it rises, the wind’s embrace, the rocks beneath your feet, and the ice cold water of the stream at night you might build a fire and follow its embers as they ascend toward the fires burning in the heavens and you will know this is where you were always meant to be _Julia Flint 2022_