For Heather Heyer: Loving Painful Truths In Unity
Your pain is my pain, because human suffering was never an individual matter
The wisdom of every culture, the founder of every faith, made that clear
We cannot separate suffering into cubes, accept baby deaths in Africa by filthy water
We got civilized together, ate what Old and New World tribes discovered at a price
Many died testing toxicity in herbs, fruit, and such, so families might survive
We all farmed once, built cities together, and polluted the planet as one human species
We seldom think of immigrants as “planet-polluters” – while excluding ourselves!
LORD does what He can to remind us of shared fates, one consciousness
Some research declares menstrual pain as part of one pain body, of ALL SISTERS
There is one PAIN-BODY that is felt in the species, One Human Body in suffering
No one will blame Adam and Eve, and declare themselves pure, never having
Tempted others to sin, or guilty by association, planning evil to Others, incessant plotting
Somewhere behind that mental clutter, we know WE endangered species, kill cows & elephants …
Together; that World War I began in Sarajevo, but never made India innocent
We take credit for medical miracles as humanity, not Drs. Separate and Self-Sufficient!
When one tribal thug kills babies, or wipes out the Wooly Mammoth, we own it as One -
*****Habilis first used tools in Africa, became *****Sapiens there, gazing across the Ocean
Walked to Eurasia, male blood and mitochondrial DNA daily explode myths of separation
How pastors, priests, and Power treat and mistreat women, is now owned as a global problem
The sooner we believe none is innocent, as in South African apartheid, Southern Segregation …
We’ll join Voices like Dr. King’s to do holy work: defending the Promises (of God and) Constitution
Copyright © Anil Deo | Year Posted 2018
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