Imagine the possibility that one unintended result
of the 300+ years of white men acting in part
out of a submerged fear of the truth of their own African origins,
stealing African families in order to subjugate them
to less-than-human slavery and all the tragedies,
horrors and sacrifices that entailed,
suppose that one unintended outcome was the establishment
of a new culture, spiritual consciousness
and connectivity to nature that helped restore
the annihilation of those beliefs and practices
of the Native Americans trampled
as far into the ground as possible—
never realizing that the ground was and is
the sacred element for mulching and rebirth
that it is.
Taking into account the 400+ years of work
to survive the involuntary scattering, to heal,
to replace self-abnegation with self-love and honoring of ancestry,
and even while fear and hatred continue to resist,
to claim a rightful place in the sharing of society,
including the election of a black president
with righteous dignity beyond reproach,
consider that that restoration brought about a flailing backlash
of such proportion as to attempt a set back
in the progression of the positive forces of change at play.
And here, we have to ask if there is something more for us to learn,
something about inclusiveness, about our own fear
and repercussions, about perception and sides,
separation vs. integration, us vs. them,
understanding vs. judgment.
Imagine the possibility that inherent in the sacrifices
of those black ancestors, of all of our ancestors,
there exists a soul agreement that plays a vital role
in ushering in the dreams of oneness, harmony,
wholeness, reverence for all of life
and the lifting of the veil—aka: apocalypse—
of our times.