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WATERING THE CHILDREN...

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Now is the time to bounce

And dive into the river

Of good trouble

Splashing waters of mission

Purpose upon the banks of apathy.

 

Knowing what must be done

And doing nothing about it,

Is like knowing the danger of drinking

Clorox water and yet gulping it down

With a smirking white-wash grin.

 

Basking in the heat rays of racism

Classifies you as a tar-baby runt

Of its burning fires of bigotry’s hell.

 

The legacy of those who have drowned 

In the struggle against flowing oppression

Cannot be honored with tar-colored apathy.

 

Unaware of the Middle Passage beach shores

And the lynched-boned bottoms of blooded rivers,

What will weary wallowing souls tell the children

When asked how did you swim and not drown

the troubling waters of roaring oppression?

 

No longer can we misinterpret the scriptures:

“Wait and be of good courage…; for the cistern

Of good courage and its cup has long overflowed—

Now is the time to get into dripping good trouble!

So come my people, let’s wade in the waters.

 

God long ago troubled the oppressive waters!

And has anointed us to now buoy and prep

Our beloved royal sons and daughters:

 

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mlowe5 says:

One love, love_supreme. Thanks. Peace and Love.

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ONE, Immortal Wize. Thanks. Peace and Love.

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