Earth sensed the humans disconnect. She felt her energy draining. It was being used up and consumed. Before, they would always give back and add to her. The pool of life essence was always constant. Her life essence enriched as the humans danced upon her.

It started to change. Some of them forgot. Visitors started coming, ones who had never been here before and didn't know the ways. We started to separate.

why are they so detached, she wondered. she had felt them separate, and as the chasm grew, they began to attack the very thing that gave them life, her. They took without returning. The devoured needlessly and endlessly. The pool of life essence that was her spirit began to wane. The visitors found the natives, and would not tolerate their lives in harmony with her. They dominated them and forced them to become like them. Now you are like us, they said. We are all the same.

She had sensed the visitors here, wearing the skins of her humans, from different stars, from different planes. They must have forgotten, she thought. They came, enjoyed, but didn't give back. There was no exchange. They thought everything was theirs and free. As a result, she began to grow weak.

she prayed for guidance. she called out to her allies. most of them, the pieces of her, were under attack as well. The humans were becoming dominators of the earth plane. She reached out to beyond herself.

Help! she cried! They are forgetting. They are losing their connection and forgetting how to live; they dominate, destroy, and seek to accelerate their deaths. She didn't understand what was happening, but felt concern. If they continued their acceleration towards death, they would surely destroy themselves, and possibly change her irrevocably. Her life pool was shrinking as she circled the sun.

She heard a whisper of reply, from within and from stars far different. We are the first wave, some said. We will follow behind, said others.

We will come, and we will build our places, in-between the worlds. We will remember our sacred natures, our connection to the pool, our connection to ourselves. We will pave the path to be something different, to hold the cauldron for the earth's warriors to enter. They will be of mixed lineages - thru the blood of the original inhabitants, and thru the spirit of the star nations.

We will come to this plane, and thru the gate forget what we know. Thru their program, become something alien. But there will be guideposts. There will be signs. There will be our place, the cauldron, where our magic enters the plane. It is here we will gather, and find our family. There are many coming. there are many here. We will aide the earth. We will share symbiosis with her again.

It is here we gather, and share stories. Those that came before with those who have come. We remember our magic and our mission. we remember our promise to her, our promise to aid. We remember a covenant of stewardship between us and all life, and with those who inherit her next. we rejuvenate the life pool for all.

We are singing and we are praying, we are calling a new earth
we open our bodies to listen, we dream the world awake
we hold to the starlight vision, our love is the vow we make

we are singing and we are praying, we are calling a new earth
we take a stand for survival, we take a stand for all
we trust in the hearts revival, our love is a healing call