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Memorial Wounds

Today we honor those who paid our price of violence
to protect us from each Other's mono-colonizing excesses,
we remember deep respect for those who have done their best
when this was too often not sufficient 
to return to a resonantly healthy life together
in their own families, 
prior spacious loves 
now fenced
and ruined.

We recognize and would redeem
returns to less peace 
found in Business As Usual 
uncivil re-immersion.

We wonder 
with our unowned feelings 
and stranger-anxiety thoughts,
reverberating through second generations 
of militarized domestic stress,
about seductively monopolistic economic
and reductively monotheistic
nationalistic political values
without CommonSense
win/win humane enterprise.

How and when holy patrimonial wars 
and systemic RightWing terror 
might politically re-erupt 
and economically corrupt
this dark premonitional MemorialNight silence 
of EarthMothers' green organic health Day

celebrating springtime wealthy forests, 
panentheistic eco/neuro-systems
inter-re-ligioning

HolySpirit EarthNatural 
indigenously wise preparations
for a robustly peaceful
and prosperous Fall harvest

With no sacred EarthMother need
to invoke GodTalk blessings
to honor those who pay OneFather's price of violence
to protect us from each Other's monopolistic
nationalistic
anthro-supremacist 
straight white privileged preoccupations

fear and anger triggering
multi-generational
systemic militarized trauma
win/lose neurosystemic drama
of monotheistic GodTalk ideations.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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