Good Morning!
I woke up so it is a good morning.
The sunrays rise, they rise, Good Morning!
The air breathes *take a deep breath* LIFE
*breathe* Life onto the trees so they can dance, dance, dance,
*breathe* Life onto the deer so they can prance, prance, prance,
*breathe* Life onto the ants so they can till, till, till,
*breathe* And life onto us, so that we can kill, kill, kill
Good Morning,
Good Morning, and I awake and I see another life gone due to someone’s complexion, sexuality, or morality.
I can’t wipe away this skin,
I can’t uncoil my hair,
I can’t break my nose, thin my lips, or change my voice,
I can’t,
I don’t
And I won’t.
We are more than the skin we are in,
We are more than the flesh that shrouds are being,
are hearts,
and our souls.
This,
This does not matter, this will die, and this won’t be here forever.
What lies within is what matters, what lies within is what’s going to be here for whatever is beyond, and then what?
What’s going to happen, when we stand before the being that created us all,
What’s going to happen when we stand before, he, she, they, it, them GOD!
And our labels are stripped from us.
There will be no Christians, no Muslims, no Jews, Democrats, Republicans,
rich , poor, gays, straights, blacks, or whites.
Just You and whatever lies within.
Can you say you were a good person?
Can you say that you didn’t let arbitrary labels affect you?
In the past, I couldn’t and I did.
But there’s a reason why we all have a heart, and there’s a reason why we all have a brain, and there’s a reason why our insides all look the same,
WE BLEED AS ONE!
And when I die or transcend, or whatever you want to call it,
I want to leave the physical realm the way I came in.
I want to leave the physical realm without malice in my heart,
I want to leave filled with love, and nothing more.
I am a proud, proud black woman,
But I am also more than the labels we created tens of thousands of years ago.
I am LOVE!
We all descend from love!
We are all in this interconnected web of love but we are too entangled in the physical realm to see that.
Strip me away from my clothes,
Strip me away from my possessions,
Strip me away from the number in my bank account,
And strip me away from my brown, black skin and will you finally see what’s within?
When you hold a baby…when I hold my baby one day,
All I will see is love in my arms and feel love in my heart
And that, that is the secret of life
And that is what we are here for, TO LOVE!
We have to fight against the negativity, the racism, the bias, the sexism, zionism, homophobia, and intolerance of the physical realm and just spread what we were born with…
And that is the purest,
Most earnest,
Most beautiful form of LOVE,
And if we do that, then, and only then, will we be alright.
Good Morning…
