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Art by, William Adolphe Bouguereau [French, 1825-1905]

(Song of the Angels) 1881.

sometimes you have to choose the neural pathway less traveled in your brain

“Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”

— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Verse II:

Well I couldn't tell the waking from the dream

Thought I saw you last in plastic covered angel wings

i mourn broken walls that i have never seen,

i grieve graves that haven’t been dug,

i weave tapestries of bloody reds and regrown greens,

i mourn a fathers loss and a mothers hug

my heart pains for cries that haven’t been heard,

it searches ruins for hands not found,

my heart exists in the broken wing of every bird,

my heart exists in the thousand bodies that litter the ground

i exist in the ribs that poke through the skin,

i exist in the hopeful eye and the vacant one,

i exist in battles we can’t win,

i exist in the war that has been won.

i echo the sound of a mother who outlived her child,

i echo the sound of a sister left alone,

i echo the sounds of destruction and the wails of the wild,

i echo the sound of guilt in your hearts of stone.

i am the shame of your children, i am the question of humanity,

i am the victor, i am the resilient, i am everything you could never be.

i am humanity. perseverance. hope. love. resilience. strength.

from the river to the sea.

🤎🪄🎨

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