human, at last

Travelling through these challenging times, poetry has become my constant companion: a way of listening into what is emerging beneath the turbulence of the present, while drawing inspiration from the extraordinary cultural diversity and pluriversality of our planetary home. I experience poems less as something I deliberately compose than as something I listen for – channelled by, for and through the times we inhabit. “human, at last” arose from such listening, sparked by the call No Limits to Hope. It speaks of hope not as optimism or wishful thinking, but as a deeper knowing: that somewhere within us already lives the seed of a future in which peace, beauty and love are at home – and in which we may, at last, become fully human.