Do Not Dismiss

Do Not Dismiss is a spoken meditation on presence, receptivity, and reverence for life as it unfolds, moment by moment.
Part of the album Bálsamo, this piece gently invites the listener to soften, to notice, and to honor what is already here.

Through images of light, breath, nature, longing, and embodiment, Do Not Dismiss encourages us not to turn away from our blessings, our wounds, our desires, or our humanity. It speaks to the quiet intelligence that lives beneath thought—the subtle movements of grace, patience, and becoming.

This offering is a reminder that nothing in us is accidental, and nothing needs to be excluded from love. Even discomfort, waiting, pleasure, and uncertainty belong to the same sacred current of life.

A contemplative practice for moments of reflection, grounding, and deep listening—
where nothing is rejected,
and everything is welcomed into the breath of Love.

Rosemary Merán: Lyrics and vocals
James Boag: Lyrics and vocals
Juan Dahik: Music

Transcript

Do not dismiss the warm blessings placed before you, Accept them, The light secretly enveloping your nights, Allow it, Fire kindling your longings, Treasure it, The soft silhouettes dressing your days with gold, All this, My heart, Do not dismiss. Your precious dreams and your disappointments, Do not cast them into the sea of your despair, Make of them a life raft and look to the compass of your nourishment, Your vitality, Your contentment. To the sun's silent whispers, Listen now, Do not dismiss the sunrises and sunsets peeking through your window, The wind, Feel it, Its playfulness upon your hair, The breeze with its softenings and coarsenings dancing around you, The moon and her many faces, See them there, And her globe blanketing each living thing, Allow the soft caresses of each moment lived in silence, Tucked away in the quietude of your spirit, Do not dismiss the filaments that thread together your most elevated thoughts, Those that awaken your senses to new possibilities. My love, Do not dismiss the waiting, The patience of sowing and planting, Do not dismiss the wrinkled bark giving away its cedar scent to you, The millipedes and ants begging from you a smile, Honor the space inside where you and life flow effortlessly in and out of each other as one, The hands that would lead you further, Deeper inside the self of all things, Accept their invitation. And do not dismiss the brightening mornings, Your awakenings, When your tired and weary eyes search for the gaze of another, Do not dismiss those words prompting you towards wholeness, Towards a ripening fuller than what you alone might know, Accept the touch enlivening your skin, Guiding you where you belong, Acknowledge your steps, The tiny ones you enter life, The subtle hidden ones, The silent barely felt ones, Loyal, They enact the essence of our hopes, Of our prayers for each other, Do not dismiss the river taking us downstream, Beyond the competing currents, The pools of rainbow waterfalls, Where spring our innermost yearnings, The fresh water that pours forth our most sublime desires, Those that really, Really matter, The longing to breathe anew inside the grace of love, To merge, Merge body, Mind and soul with holy, Holy light, Leave space for what lies inside, Awake, That incubates, Juices hidden from our thoughts, Do not dismiss what pulsates beyond the veil of practiced forgetfulness, And no, Do not dismiss the sword to cut through the swamps of your uncertain mind, Unwilling to see the beauty before it, We deserve our humanity, All its waves and undulations, Its sacred currents and eternal landscapes, We deserve every inch of one another, Do not dismiss the drops of new life trickling down your eyebrows, Down your nose, Folding into your lips, Down your neck and chest, Swirling around your heart, Gliding further, Gently encircling your waist, Down your hips, Further down in and beyond the threshold of your pleasure, Down, Down, Down, Past your legs and feet, And into the earth, Into the earth to flourish, Everything exists within the breath of the eternal, Let us meet there, Inside the space of an embrace, Becoming the warm, Soothing light of love, Dismissing nothing, Dismissing nothing.