O! Pluto!
Unrelenting undertaker
Keeper of the dark
Remind us once more
Of necessary death
And how to feed life
O! Pluto!
Bringer of boils
Splitter of atoms
Help us see
What is buried and keeping us sick
Help us remember
That none of this is ours
That nothing remains
O! Pluto!
Portal of pain
Saint of survival
Let us remember choice
As we grapple with the hooks
And learn to refuse them
O! Pluto!
Is that you at the fork in the road?
With the three dogs and the lantern?
Who tickled Demeter so?
Met her at the bottom of the well,
And helped coax back spring?
O! Pluto!
May we remember to survive
Without annihilation
May we slow the urges
May we let this all pass
Through our bodies like worms
leaving fresh loam behind us
May we find where and who we cling to
And unbend each gentle finger
May we find an open palm
May we have the courage to go under
To remember what we have always known
To let go of the fantasy of form
To trust the heat
To let it break us
Shape us new
