LICHEN / THE ART OF BEING MANY

Born of many, living as one,
She dissolves the myth of separation.
She is a union of worlds;
algae, fungi, bacteria,
three kingdoms living as one.

Lichen thrives where others cannot
in the cracks, the ruins, the hard places;
stone, bone, bark, ruins
turning desolation into possibility.

Teaching resilience without conquest,
belonging without possession.