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Let My People Shine

At sixteen
People's Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago

Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
that I was a StraightWhiteMale
born-again
wanna be choir director

Because I could sing with gospel appeal
and dance with evangelical zeal.

It was in Chicago
I learned some LeftBrain orthodoxy
of RightBrain orthopraxis
I had always felt,
from the Muse within.

This mind/body orthopraxis of singing
peak and valley embodied feelings
as opposed to merely memorizing lyrics
and vocal intervals
and rhythms
and sacred silent rests
in Earth's indigenous Wisdom

Would sometimes swell up and out
from the souls of my Yang conducting feet

Music beginning with primordial
root chakra Yintegrity
positively impressing our full 
sacred neurosystemic embodied
Muse

Heading up and down
and all around my heart chakra
mind/body double-binding
co-arising co-binary
in-between trans-boundaries
where transcendent monotheistic gospel
orchestrating, from above 
cherishes EarthMother's immanent empowerment,
mediating, from within 
moving soulful choices
inviting good news Yang strong
resiliently resonant voices.

Those instructors who were planning
to more comfortably conduct
with their dominant right wing
orthodox uninspired messaging bodies 
did not actively encourage us
to move below our stagnant necks

On the other hand
we had one woman of color
who invited each morning
conducting from the souls of our feet
with sufficient passion
to raise FatherSun's
octaves of co-enlightenment.

She conducted warm-ups
considerably more gospel athletic
than gasping eremetic

Stretching compassion's inside muscles
primal joint relationships
bicameral minds and lungs 
and bipartisan hearts
while reaching
teaching
preaching outside ancient light/power
Musing memories
of empowering dance
and prance
and, occasionally, 
communally enlightened trance.

Sadly,
merely sixteen,
I returned to conservative
rural homophobic 
xenophobic 
patriarchal anthro-privileged
RightWing dominant
People's MonoTheistic MonoCulturing Bible Church
more comfortable making metronomic
1-2-3-4
points like the 4/4
fractal sign 
of a triumphantly crowning cross

While singing,
from my own entitled head-voice
repeating orthodox melodies
from disembodied traditional memories

At my peak experience best,
from my core heart chakra diaphragm
breathing in dogmatic history's choices
while expiring more sacred
gay and trans-inspiring
transporting
orthopraxis
of ancient healthy sung passions
and wealthy moving beauty
written across every bipartisan resonant heart

Good news singing
and LeftBrain orchestrating
but not really great shoes moving
and RightBrain mediating
cooperative engagement in communal resonance,
full-bodied community
root-systemic resilience

Strong enough to carry
through six days
of secular ecocidal
lack of sacred Yang/Yintegral orthopraxis
transcending mere orthodox 
religiously repeated 
predictably dull narratives

To more fully embrace
wellness-souled
song and dance
gospel-passioned praxis
orchestrating FatherSun's Yang dusk
while mediating MotherEarth's Yintegral
empowering redawn
of indigenous nondualistic
nonviolent 
nonverbal wisdom.

Wellbeing mindfully sung
and 
Wellness rooted dance
up and out
from the souls of our spirited resonant feet
on EarthMother's naturally resilient beat.

Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2024

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