“Spirit Allies”

Keep death as your ally,

just over your left shoulder,


To remind you to love fiercely…

To remind you to stay awake…

To remind you to stand in your integrity

without concern for outcome.


To stand in your own medicine

because that is the agreement

you made with your Ancestors

before coming here.”


When death comes for you…

you want to be standing in your own life

not in another’s…


Kedar S. Brown Oct. 31st 2011