Brotherhood Bond
Dear distant neighbor:
your Asian pain is acutely common to me
The oppression bond
links us together navel-to-navel
Thou art my brother,
for God have deemed it so
Dear near neighbor:
your Caucasian pain is very common to me,
The dividing racial line
joins us together at the hip
Thou art my sister,
for God made us have shared crimson joy
from the same blood ink dip
Overcoming the fear and the distrust;
oh, what a wonderful feeling,
borne of unconditional bonding love
The brotherhood bond of humanity
ofttimes does not hold fast
The differences that we mostly surface see,
hinders us from moving forward
Keeps us always slipping backward
into the maddening morass of the past
The temporary peace that we have,
from time to time, doesn’t last long
An occasional peace,
which come from the things
we find common ground to agree on
I’ve felt your pain,
and you’ve felt mine as well
We’ve experienced each other’s heartache,
and then some more
The lessened burden that we’ve carried
in life at times, was made bearable ...
because it was shared by another somewhere else —
The brotherhood bond holding strong
Bravely shouldering the extra hardship
of someone not bone of our bone
It was our suffering tears they were crying,
when we felt comforting relief from the pain
It was our withered dreams that were dying,
when their flowers received the blossoming rain
The wisdom of the brotherhood bond
is a bountiful harvest of shared witnessing
Wisdom gleaned with heavenly surety ...
Showing us that an umbilical equality
is rooted in everything
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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