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۞ ℓσσķ ωħεrε ωε ωσrsħιρ

◦°°◦°°◦ мy ℓιƒε ιs мy sυη∂αηcε ◦°°◦°°◦

Created on 2005-02-21 10:23:39 (#6207632), last updated 2009-11-14

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Name:i_bromeliad
Birthdate:09-07
Location:Virginia, United States
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call me by my true names







do not say that i'll depart tomorrow
because even today i still arrive.

look deeply: i arrive in every second
to be a bud on a spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

i still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
in order to fear and to hope.
the rhythm of my heart is the birth &
death of all that are alive.

i am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river,
& i am the bird which, when spring comes, arrives in time
to eat the mayfly.

i am the frog swimming happily in the clear pond,
& i am also the grass-snake who, approaching in silence,
feeds itself on the frog.

i am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks,
& i am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to
Uganda.

i am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea
pirate,
& i am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and
loving.

i am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my
hands,
& i am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to, my
people,
dying slowly in a forced labor camp.

my joy is like spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom in all
walks of life.
my pain is like a river of tears, so full it fills the four oceans.

please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and laughs at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

please call me by my true names,
so i can wake up,
& so the door of my heart can be left open,
the door of compassion.







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