Eyes  seeing not

Living in the "A"

'tween the Red the White and the Blue

in the land of the free the monied and the new

we Blacks walk about like statues on parade

like addendum coloring the scene

decorating the corners hoping to dress them New

Whatever we were before the beginning

whatever we were at its shores

we are the remains of an afterthought

expected to remain out in the blue

like some Thing bought new

One long pain marching o'er the years of strain

one long color-band drawing lines on shifting sands

one long for-get-it-all pretending we be-long

while the talking-heads pass by gauze-less without eyes

Been a long difficult journey moving silently across the line

hoping for an entry bell that'll whisk us to the front

but whisk we'll never be but walking there we'll get

making noise and ringing bells stirring flags creating sound

being true to what is core-ly ourselves

Humans with a gut

with a Soul about our heart

within our heart within our smarts

alive and breathing well with God somewhere in the lot

awaiting their eyes to see what their eyes are seeing not

awaiting Their eyes to see what Their eyes are seeing not

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -From the outset language invites the child to disassociate herself, making her live in opposition to her body and the world, not with it.

  -...if he is to give life to society and prevent it from petrifying, it is important that he become joyously himself.

  -The Gospel is a plea for the essential solitude of a man or woman who genuinely wishes to meet others.

  -The family sometimes can become more than a hot-house of prejudices and slavery.  Ties of spirit can become stronger than those of blood.  That is its specifically Christian goal.  In any case, the person who wakes up will sooner or later choose his own family, from which his relatives are not necessarily excluded.