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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