One way
I know this afrocentric music
rather than a eurocentric mere performance piece
is longing for
a sweet and swinging chariot,
rather than a messiah white and male.
I know
this is a cooperative-felt spirit,
and not so much a competition,
because of how
word choices and round rhythms
combine to pitch longing free safe home.
A freestyle journey
to a rich robust and multicultured freedom
of tribes long living
loving Earth's peace paradise.
A paradise
western civilization
has not sung or danced,
out loudly joyed about
for far too long
without a warm cooperative song
Swinging low and high
in sweetly waving gold
ruled and ratioed
traveler's chariot,
Coming and going
racing forth and back
to carry us
in and out of home
To freedom's too long lost,
stolen, kidnapped
while we were dreaming,
singing and dancing with another day
dreaming nights of disembodied free,
Anxiously anticipating,
weary
and yet warmly welcoming.
A kind of cultural sensitivity,
that strengthens discovery; a space
for identity and history.
It’s a style of thought,
chosen to highlight its core;
A lengthy discourse that
acts and synthesizes.
Significant efforts that deal
with elements of change.
It’s a trend to implicitness
that evolves on the Asian heartland.
Discoveries and re-discoveries
about Asianness or Orientalism,
its nature and institutional sense
has its roots to share; a wealth of faith.
Features of the colonial past
reflect the emergence and growth
of that conventional wisdom;
At the same time, a reaction –
to sensitivty and understanding.
It’s an important element to draw
and carry out integration anew;
with other cultures or global forces
in developing nations; a relationship
a blend of strength, a sharing of gifts.
Asia seeks and grapples
with a great deal of systems;
In a world market swamped
with Eurocentric mindsets, a challenge-
a reinforcement that has its semantic shield,
that defends otherness and people with differences.
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