This is My Prayer
For the collective
My heart mourns
And pumps tears
For our ancestors
As we sink and descend
Into the earth
To uproot weeds
And fertilize
With cries
And shrieks
My heart mourns
And pumps tears
For the tortured
And the torturer
The pain runs deep
Hate blood seeps
From the coldest
And deadest of hearts
To torture requires a tortured soul
Free them beloved Source
My heart mourns
And pumps tears
For the collective
Sobs that burst
And quenches our thirst
For a healing
That shakes and nourishes
The human spirit
A communal soul revival
A reckoning
Heart cracking
Earth-shattering
Awakening to Love
Written after the Atlanta mass shooting of 8 people including 6 Asian women on 3/16/21. Rest in Peace and in Power.
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