A delight to read although it bothers on very important themes. Take a quick walk through Deborah’s mind.
Espiritu en Fuego/A Fiery Spirit
Amistad
One day while on deck we Jumped, You and I.
Across Oceans.
Over the Seven Seas.
Towards Freedom.
Jacob Lawrence ~ Migration Series
The fluttering’s within led us to know that………….
No Womb Child of Ours would serve foreign masters in a strange land.
Now we Two Lovers are sealed in an Eternal Embrace wrapped around Eons.
Our sacred bones have become Undersea chapels where Ocean denizens worship daily.
They swim through our frameworks paying homage via weaving seaweed, decorating our frames with diatoms and Ocean sea grasses as adornments for our Holy Cathedrals.
Phytoplankton, kelp and algae melodically bow in reverence and awe to displaced ancestors who chose to answer that yearning for the Motherland by throwing off heavy corporal prisons and keepers that sought to bind them to an unfamiliar future in the bosom of a generation who had forsaken the Creator.
Releasing our…
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Thanks for the Reblog. My tribute to all African Ancestors who lost their lives on the Middle Passage to the New World. For them a world of slavery and degradation. For those who drowned crossing an unforgiving Sea please know that you are not forgotten. Your Voices still cry out to be heard. Speak!
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And a good way to sum it up. Thank you very much. Blessings.
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