Recipes for Our Children

You may have purchased me,

but you have never owned me.

You may have acquired property,

but you have never owned the land.

You may have bottled water,

but you have never owned our oceans,

our lakes,

our rivers.

It is impossible to own

what is living, what belongs to all of us, what is sacred.

I am ocean,

I am human,

I am free.