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Of Empty Black Buckets and Watered Truths

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                    i

From Negro History week

to Black History Month,

 has been a perilous sojourn-struggle

along the Woodson journey:

Once again

we pause to slice swollen keloids,

opening old wounds of flooded memories—

flowing a river of bloody truths of our story.

 

Yet, while elders cast compassionate hooks

to reel in nourishing steadfastness,

the children sit, anchored along the banks,

immersed in comic book fantasies:

 

We fishers among schools of young stones

still, have many bottom dwellers

to yet reel in, to fill our empty buckets.

 

                          ii

With our children let us plunge

into the rivers of memories

filling our buckets

quenching thirsty minds

with the watered truths of ourstory,

washing away the lies and deceit of history;

that they may ride the sea of life

with visions of the journey-struggle’s shores

in their awareness; leaving Nintendo-like games

behind them as they find Crossword puzzle

solutions to the liberation that lies before them:

 

Indeed, when you train up the children

in the way they should go, they will never

depart from the awareness of who

and whose they are, in greatness and and grace.

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mrmelody7 says:

Really taking that last pargraph to the bank historical events always remind of us when people like you remind us

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mlowe5 says:

Thank you Sir! Much appreciated. Peace and Love, mlowe5
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mlowe5 says:

Thanks, love_supreme. We still have a lot of reeling in to do; our buckets are yet to be filled. Peace and Love.

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