Roots and Blossoms

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In dialogue with Monica Sharma's "Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents," p. 13.

Earth's organisms patriotically
and yet matriarchally wise
wonder if both of these could be true:

1. Poverty and prejudice breed violence.
2. Capitalism and patriarchalism feed conflict.

If so,
is the first
or the second
history's enculturing root system?

And is the Other
our aggressively threatening
viral 
chronic
pandemic blossom of oppression?

EarthMothers wonder
if natural family empowering
is also spiritual species enlightening
cooperative Wisdom
inviting humane peace,
restoring divinely inspiring
expiring multicultural justice
more than monocultural JustUs!
means not you Others 
too

Mothers gather our global EarthTribe
with less dissonant debate praxis
preferring to invest
in more resilient dialogue practice
forest green
and sky blue communions 
instead of ancient cold gold
and dead red competitions.

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