ACTIVATION

activation;

not sunken 
or waiting 
not under con-struc-tion 
or out of order

but instead 
upright 
revved up
green light
turned on
tuned in 
ready. 

woke up. woke up. woke up. 
wake up. wake up. 
begin. 
good day to ya!
hallelujah! 
shake them pesky blues away. 
them silly doubts.
those obtrusive
“no ma’ams”
or
“you can’ts” 
flick them aside.
say goodbye. 

They are no longer part of your stratosphere.
The cosmic world you’ve created has no place for doubts. 

We are in a land full of sureties - of yes, and!
(with a sprinkling of carefully placed boundaries, of course) 

But here, in this world,
if you must say “no ma’am” —
say it to the man, man!

to activate;
to begin
to shift
to the flowing
to the knowing
to listening to the beating heart 
the voice that has a spark 

to activate;

to turn to the mountain
the vast land
to stretch-stretch-stretch
your skin
to the sun
to open your chest
to face the mountain and say,

I’m ready.

I have always been ready. 
I am the person I am suppose to be.
The life I am living is the life i was meant to live.
It is here now.
The grass is green on the side I’m on.

I take my gentle heart
I grow it
I glow with it. 

I let it be known:

right here,

right now:

that iIve got my heart’s back.

To activate;

to win the tug of war
to gather the rope
to coil it;
to unfurl with it;
to put a stake in the ground.

To begin the dig. 
to dig in deep
to write down your dreams
to pursue them
in the pursuit of them
of giving them 

a go

right now, 
right away,
don’t hesitate;

just activate