Matthew R. Callies

Held Beyond Division

They walk where older stories bend and flow

not carved in lines the world demands to see

but held in ways the living winds still know

beyond the reach of simple you or me

the land remembers what the voices trace

when names were not yet forced into a frame

it keeps a deeper rhythm, slow in grace

where spirit moves without a need for name

 

No border holds what was not made to split

no rule can turn such wholeness into two

what lives within refuses loss of it

it simply is, and always will be true

so let the world expand its narrow sight

to hold a truth that does not need to fight

 

And still it moves beyond the lines we draw

not waiting for approval or for law

it carries on where language starts to fray

and finds new breath in every living day