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The weight of the world has weighed heavy on me in the last year or so. To combat the depressive despair, I’ve returned to the arts—both as a consumer, and more importantly as a creator.
Writing music, poems, and stories has been my way of expressing deeply held emotion since my childhood. Singing, acting, and producing, are ways that I share these channeled messages with the world.
I leave them as an offering to you and others. May they bring you peace, hope, and joy in your journey of life.
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Today I offer you this poem, inspired by the call I hear to maintain hope as an act of defiance. A peaceful rebellion in the face of turmoil and injustice. It is a cry for solidarity and a plea to nurture the spark of light within you, your soul’s fire. This is our act of rebellion. Despite the chaos and confusion, we plant these seeds anyway.
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Seeds of Hope | A Poem of Sacred Defiance by DaeEss 1Drea
I am I am I am…
A seed, a spark, a whisper
Buried beneath collapse collapse collapse
I rise I rise I rise…
Through the ash, through the ache, through the absence
of what was, of what burned, of what broke
Defiant, deliberate, divine
The world unravels—
threads pulled pulled pulled
By hands of greed, of fear, of forgetting
But within me—within you—
A thread remains remains remains
Woven from stardust, stitched with soul
It hums hums hums
Beneath the noise, beneath the rubble
A pulse, a promise, a prayer
Plant it plant it plant it
In the cracks of concrete hearts
In the fissures of forgotten faith
In the soil of sacred defiance
Water it with wonder
With wildness, with the whispers of ancestors
Who knew knew knew
That hope is rebellion
That light is resistance
That love is the oldest spell
I am I am I am…
Unfolding, unbreaking, unbound
The window of faith is open open open
Let the winds howl, let the doubt knock
But I— I plant anyway
Not because I am certain
But because I am alive
This seed, this spark, this breath
It is enough It is everything
It is the beginning
Of what comes next next next
Copyright 2025 ~ DaeEss 1Drea
