Lifted by Daniel Plackett

photo by Eleni Cosma 

Lifted,Lifted,Lifted.

For all who haul their bodies,

We are the ones who left the sea

We crawled our way out

Our legs were fins then,

Our bodies weighed us down

Our eyes pulled us up.

I was there , we were all there

We have been raising ourselves up

From the first sound From first light , from dust ,

From the ocean , in the first drop

Lifted,lifted.

Τhe dream was made.

Through this body I am lifted

Cell by Cell

Star by Star

Lifted by the Fish, the Fern, Crocodile and Dinosaur

Hydrogen and Nitrogen

The Helix and it’s Fossils

I am lifted

All that I am before

Now lifted In all these deaths,

I rise

To stand on the seashore

In this body

My hands above my head

To give my inheritance

To the ones who will No longer crawl

I was there

We were all there

When we heard the call

Salt water slips

From this body of mine

And I move further in Leaving behind the crashing waves and these footprints now fading in the sand.

DWP