Monday, April 20, 2009

Invocation to Our Ancestors

Invocation to Our Ancestors

Invoke the ancestors. Invite them
to come and play. Let the past
mark your life, and carry you with grace
into the future – more bright, more vivid
and real. As real as the ghosts whose blood
races through veins
while you dance to a Malian chant.
Drums beat, sweat
pours life into tradition
invites you in to peer. No –
stare into the past,
watch its eyes roar back
to life while you breathe
Life back into a dance.
Maybe your great grandmother
danced too. Along with a beat laid
by your great great-grandfather who
Is communicating to you,
through you.

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