I am the ground beneath your marching feet,
the breath between your wars and prayers,
older than your oldest empire,
woven through your blood and air.
I am the dream you keep forgetting—
not distant, but the life you live;
the soil that feeds your every hunger,
the silent hand that learns to give.
Through me you rise, through me you conquer,
yet never turn to see my face;
you crown your kings upon my body
and call it power, call it grace.
I have felt your endless cycles—
the rise of flags, the fall of names;
your history burns across my skin
in different words, in identical flames.
I am the echo of your choosing
when fear divides and hate takes form;
I tremble with each iron whisper,
each missile born, each swelling storm.
You think you choose—but I am breaking
beneath the weight of what you do;
your borders cut across my body,
but I have never been split in two.
I am the forests turned to silence,
the oceans thick with unheard cries,
the sky that chokes on ash and longing,
the wound no wealth can justify.
Still, I remember what you’ve buried—
a quieter truth beneath your pace:
you were not made to live in conquest,
nor to erase your dwelling place.
Yet I feel your ancient sleeping,
the deeper current in your mind—
a shared forgetting, vast and restless,
that leaves your wiser self behind.
You circle time and call it progress,
repeat the same unhealed refrain;
you build your future out of fragments
and wonder why it feels like pain.
I am not separate from your being—
your breath is mine, your bones my dust;
each war you wage upon each other
returns to me, as all things must.
And still I whisper: wake before me.
Before my rivers cannot run,
before the seeds forget their memory,
before the last of me is undone.
I am not endless in this form.
I am not bound to always give.
There are thresholds you are crossing
beyond which neither of us live.
Listen—
not to the drums you’ve always followed,
not to the hunger I once fed,
but to the silence underneath them,
where something truer waits instead.
For I am also what could heal you,
the deeper ground beneath your fear,
the place where all your wars dissolve
when you remember why you’re here.
See me—not as a thing to conquer,
not as a prize, a tool, a stage—
but as the living field of being
you’ve slowly driven into rage.
I am your past and I am pleading,
your present trembling in your hands;
I am the future you are shaping
with every choice you do not understand.
Wake—
not tomorrow, not in story,
not in the ashes of regret—
but now, while breath and root remain,
while I am still not finished yet.
Concept: Goma Thapaliya