[Thespiritexpress] Fw: Easter 2022 - What The Ancestors Want You to Know

[Riantee Rand]

Thank you Lydia. Thank you anonymous, thanks to the ancestors.
I say yeh for liberation of the obligations of our own making. What freedom!
R

> On Apr 18, 2022, at 12:36, Lydia Ruby Shepard via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:.
> Posted by Charlie Engel.   Author is not known.
> 
> ~~ WHAT THE ANCESTORS WANT YOU TO KNOW ~~
> The ancestors want you to know,
> you are not required to carry their pain.
> Your mother did not spin the web that nets you,
> you wove it from your own desire.
> Yesterday's rain won't nourish this flower;
> the new sun drank last night's tears.
> Your grandmothers are singing for you
> to birth your own unbearable happiness.
> Your grandfathers' bones are praying for you
> to hunt the sweetness in your own marrow.
> You think you must stand like a warrior
> in the withering crossfire of your father's blood.
> But what wounds you is the wavering blade
> of your mind, slashing the past and future.
> If you insist on making reparations, plant
> a wild pine; let it be a tree of Presence.
> You cannot pay them for the privilege of breathing,
> for awakening this solitude of beauty.
> They need no libation, they thirst for no offering.
> They are not hungry ghosts,
> But earthworms who luxuriate in loam,
> shards of sunlight lodged in magnolia blossoms.
> Do not carry them; they do not carry you.
> They bear their own grief and laughter.
> The past is vanishing smoke, the flame is now.
> Be christened with this breath; name yourself.
> You sleep alone in the chamber of your ribs.
> No one else enters and leaves your lungs.
> A mother kissed you, a father held you;
> you owe them nothing for this.
> They did it for themselves; now let them
> be about the business of their next childhood.
> Father your heart, Mother your body.
> Hold and kiss new sparkling babies.
> Give them your grandmother's name if you must,
> but not as a weight, not as a brand on the hip;
> But as a prayer, a promise of astonishment
> for what has not yet been conceived.
> __________
> Author unknown
> 
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