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I now know you as you are known
to be known—as in the beginning
when wisdom posited
riveting pellets of revelations
strengthening fertile minds—etching
fearless determinations—bounding
the oneness of mind so essential to survival;
I now know you as you are known
to be known—and no false claims
of Armageddon can excuse you
from your inhuman genocidal deeds…
and no capricious apology or innate fear
can generate a forgive-forget syndrome;
Remember to remember that Judas
was and is, forgiven:
Truth, never forgotten nor
desired to be, was in his deed;
May The High God forgive
for allowing you to freely rape
and abuse peace, love and justice;
may The Supreme forgive
for allowing us to drink the wine of deceit
and bite into the fruit of fear; forgetting
to remember: You cannot love the tree
and hate its roots; that you cannot fight wars
in the name of peace; nor build justice
and equanimity on a foundation of bigotry.
To forgiving and not forgetting, may The Devine One
forever forgive and remind us of the profound effect
shadowed choices we’ve made; choices of firry actions
when not needed; choices failing to initiate when should
I now know you as you were known
to be known: hate—the fraternal deformity
siamese twin of fear from the belly
of the mind’s womb—an unsanctified one.
With satanic blades, you may murderously
cut down the tender trees of the Garden
but will remain powerless to destroying the anchored
and growing roots of our supreme beginnings here
in this wayward land that has been bequeathed us.
Let the fertile words of the Johnson anthem resound:
We have come over the way
That with fears have been watered.
We have come treading our paths
Through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the bright gleam
Of our bright star is cast.
Indeed, with Amazing Grace, we still rise—rising,
and it will be our portion to hear the resounding echo:
You have not journeyed in vain; your blood, sweat and tears
are eternal nutrients in humanity’s soil of Love. Peace and Unity.
