Soul Medicine by Selma Martin

To heal humanity we need to focus on our one collective-soul

As the planet turns on its axis
And Mother Earth responds to our plight
The stars align to support our growth sprout
And watch over us as we sleep at night

We're one people brought down to our knees
To face challenges we've ignored too long
If it weren't for the love we bear in our souls
We would have perished already, alone

But we're not alone in our hour of need
To our brethren, we stretch out a hand
For each other, we resolve to be strong
For one another we strive and march on

Borderless, and intuned to one heartbeat
With soul medicine, we heal our deep hurts


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Author’s Bio

Selma Martin is a retired English teacher with 20 years of teaching children ESL. She believes in people’s
goodness and in finding balance in simple living. She lives in Japan with her husband of thirty-four years.
In 2018, Selma participated in a networking course whose final lesson was to publish a story on Amazon.
After many failed attempts, she completed the course and self-published her short story, Wanted:
Husband/Handyman, in 2019. Later, collaborating with peers from that course, she published Wanted:
Husband/Handyman in an anthology, Once Upon A Story: A Short Fiction Anthology.

Selma has published stories on Medium for many years, in MasticadoresUSA, The Poetorium At Starlight, Short
Fiction Break, Lit eZine, and Spillwords.

In July 2023, Selma published a debut poetry collection on Amazon through Experiments In Fiction. In April
2024she was published in an anthology, Poetry Treasures through Word Craft Publishers, and in June 2024 in
a haiku anthology, Pearls of Haiku through Literary Revelations Press. You can find Selma on her website,
selmamartin.com, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook as selmawrites.