A post for the South Africa Pilgrimage Blog

Today's heavy experiences inspired the following reflection:

 

Africa by Ruth E. Perry, MD

 

Into a flying cocoon I curl

To unfurl

Into the primordial whorl

Of the motherland.

 

In human creation's cradle

Standing on mountain's table

Will I be able

To see diasporas past and to come?

 

Migrations outward created diversity

Spawned adversity

Ignited inequality

Can we fathom our different similarities.

 

Slavery-Colonization

Apartheid-Segregation

All de-humanization

Different names, mean the same.

 

Political oppression

Memory suppression

Spiritual regression

We all thirst for the grail's elixir.

 

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