Sowing spores into waters, seeds that resist

Aditi Garg

I know seeds contain hope.
Energy expended, possibility contained.
A catalyst, a moment.

Sowing spores into waters, seeds that resist.

A cloud of potential, strained desire,
Energy released, seeds persist.

This poem sprouted in the Philippines from “Semillas que resisten” by Daniela Catrileo in Wallmapu (“Seeds that resist”, translated from the original Spanish by Helen Dixon).