Roots of Karametra - …And Mankind Finally Remembers

No walls around the gardens No smoke above the trees Every roofline built from fallen cedar Every road bends with the creek Children learn the names of insects Before they learn the names of kings No one’s worth is tied to gold here Only to the life they bring The rivers move without poisoning The forests stand old and wide And every hand that takes the harvest Leaves enough for roots to rise Nothing here belongs forever So nothing here is owned The land is not beneath us It is the oldest home And the deer walk through the village Without fear inside their bones Gardens climb the homes like ivy Stone and soil over stone Every lantern burns with sunflower oil Every table feeds the whole And nobody grows wealthy From another spirit’s loss The wolves still sing beyond the hillside The bees still crown the spring And mankind finally remembers It was never meant to rule everything Hospitals grow beside the meadows Medicine pulled from bark and flower The healers study modern knowledge Without forgetting earthborn power Fish return to ancient rivers Blackened waters turned back clear And the old-growth trees grow massive Because no hand arrives with fear There are no starving crowded cities No machines that choke the sky Only workshops lit by windows And careful hands that craft with pride The elders teach beside the fire How every creature shapes the land How fungus feeds the dying forest How decay still feeds the living back again Nothing lives untouched by others Nothing survives alone Even mountains crack to rivers Even forests need the crows And the deer walk through the village Without fear inside their bones Gardens climb the homes like ivy Stone and soil over stone Every lantern burns with sunflower oil Every table feeds the whole And nobody grows wealthy From another spirit’s loss The wolves still sing beyond the hillside The bees still crown the spring And mankind finally remembers It belongs to everything No oceans choked with plastic No children numbed by screens No concrete burying the wetlands No hunger sold for greed The factories became greenhouses The highways turned to trails The people stopped chasing endless growth And learned enough could still prevail The prisons became sanctuaries The churches became community halls And every lonely soul was welcomed Without needing to become less at all Now the deer sleep near the gardens Birdsong wakes the dawn And every home is built remembering We were never separate at all The rivers carry clean reflections The mountains breathe unscarred And every living thing is sacred Simply because it already was The wolves still sing beyond the hillside The bees still crown the spring And mankind finally remembers How to live without conquering