Ritual of the returning people

The prompt for Poets and Storytellers United is combination/ collaboration

Ritual of the returning people

Dream new songs  

risen from the chorus of many.  

Draw in the sweetness,  

of collaboration

each breath a mingling  

of gifted waters.  

For this is the rite  

of the water bearers

gathering their vessels  

to fill a mighty sea.  

So open.  

Break the shell 

that kept you solitary.  

Return to the weaving,  

threads rejoining threads  

the ancient tapestry  

of the people.  

Here we carve our lines  

into the one great story.  

Here we transmute  

our offerings  

into a golden chain,  

hand to hand,  

remembering the oneness  

we never truly left.