We are all one
My ancestors’ stories live inside of me.
Vaguely imprinted knowledge, asks intuition for direction to which the soul pointed inward to the heart.
Follow its path, falling and learning along the way.
So many visions of lives that could have been,
A beautiful black girl standing in a field of sunflowers.
Smiling up towards god, towards the sun in all happy glory.
Thankful to be alive in nature, so natural.
In moments so quiet spirit whispers to me,
the memories of those imagined paving the way.
The emotional realities of being property, of being a slave.
Fragmented societies banded together to love and heal wounds but having been beaten so harshly,
so relentlessly we’ve become confused.
Competing, often breaking down one another instead of collaborating,
tutoring and mentoring those in need.
Time of the tribe must return,
looking past nations,
various pigmentations to know we are all human, we are all one.
It’s what’s on the inside that bonds us.
Safety and security
On the floor face up,
Now the crawl have to get up
Start from disaster
Rising is what has to be mastered
New territory
The move from blurry,
Seeing life unclearly,
Heavy gravity weighing down on me
I can still see the wreckage and smoke
Washing away the black tar that coats
My skin, the war did end
To find direction I must now focus in.
Where am I past the chaos
Defined myself by my drama
The real me, undiscovered lost,
Having lived through so much trauma
Had to explore my soul
The inner workings of my core
To learn how to be present
And make better decisions
This ambiguous journey
Of trying to set firm definition
To the pages of my story
To then provide me with dimension
This person, this elusive consistent character
May be an ideal, instead of being concretely real
Who we are, may be far more abstract
Rather a wave than a stone that does not crack
How we act changes daily,
We search throughout ourselves for security
But can we gain a sense of safety
If we are constantly changing?
Timothy Wayne Moore is pursuing a master’s of leadership from Rosemont College.