I hereby declare, on oath, that I renounce all allegiance to

any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty,

When you arrive, hands stretched toward something to hold to

these lands will ask a fare of admission

of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject;

Offer up the leylines of your palms to the

roads of mycellia — they will not need your maps

I declare I will support and defend the Land —

the Body cradling us in the Black of the Universe;

Tally the beads of sweat from all your distractions & doing,

that water was never yours to keep

that I will bear true faith to the same; unearthing, bearing,

extending arms,

wrapping as I too have been wrapped

Traverse the sanguine pull through arterial veins searching,

a cost you will pay many times over

as is law. As above, so below. As within,

so without — as I receive, so I give;

Crystal the sweet memory of before, harvested —

still warm — from the gates of your ribs

I declare to perform noncombatant service of open arms,

tilling in reverence;

None of these will grant you passage. Eat, beloved,

of this land regrow yourself with these molecules

that I will perform work of importance under cosmic direction;

and I take this charge, this remembering, this knowing freely,

Branch down through schematics of histories, connect

eyes firmly closed and trust

With no reservation or evasion;

so help me.