Thank you Gideon. "in spite of it all" we keep on living. I am one of those souls who appreciate the gentle hand of your writing reaching out. It moves me to reach on.
Thank you for salving my mutilated insides. They cut straight to the marrow, resonate, and heal in ways I cannot express. Please keep creating this coruscating, life-giving poetry. God bless your heart.
"these dead canaries" I have often expressed my lament for all the canaries calling out and yet being told they are inconvenient at best, codependent at worst.
Hard to put into words how much I identify with these words. Thank you for this.
Thank you Gideon. "in spite of it all" we keep on living. I am one of those souls who appreciate the gentle hand of your writing reaching out. It moves me to reach on.
These Dead Canaries
Inspired by Gideon Heugh’s “Some Strange Belief of Mine” posted 4/19/25
Every year, the weight of this Holy Saturday presses down,
as if it were here to show us
what we Canaries bear every day.
How laid bare our souls feel.
Bare and barren.
To see, and yet feel alone in our seeing.
To call out.
To call out.
To call out.
But our calls are a nuisance.
“Such a victim mentality,” they say.
As the victims fade away.
And who will suffocate
When we cease to call out?
When in silence we display
The fate of those going on their way.
What will we invite into our life?
This cathedral of a life that we build each day.
What will we no longer tolerate,
If all are one?
If all are one,
How do we end something to make space for new?
If light and dark, and death and life, are all one,
What is God?
And when does tomorrow come?
You stabbed sword of Truth straight into my quickened heart with this one. Ooof.
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Thank you for salving my mutilated insides. They cut straight to the marrow, resonate, and heal in ways I cannot express. Please keep creating this coruscating, life-giving poetry. God bless your heart.
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Thank you, Gideon, for the ache and the home.
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"these dead canaries" I have often expressed my lament for all the canaries calling out and yet being told they are inconvenient at best, codependent at worst.
Gideon, may I please share this in an online group and link to your substack?
Of course ☺️