I call on my ancestors, so that I may have faith in them, to speak good speech, so I may at this moment, be an orator of wisdom and truth
because I seek to call out my demons
invoking the divine power called love
by righteous and just thoughts, speech, and actions
love compels truth and empowers one to have all power of self,
environment, and those who have not yet activated the will within themselves
still needing to be lead
this power compels the metaphorical demons within us latching on like parasites siphoning our life force
so we speak the truth of their name and origins, that they may be brought back under the control of all-powerful love
love is about locating yourself
living love is locating and activating the god within us, powered by the God of all, whose very body we all exist
once realized
it’s a sense
a 6th sense if you will
that feels a calling to live Truth
and by living Truth, knowing the real from unreal, we can recognize true self, and become vessels for heaven on earth
this sense, this calling, compels us to live Righteous and Just with one another
a moral imperative unrivaled by quibbles of color, code class culture creed constitution, or claim
so what are the names of our demons
like math, to find the solution
we must know the problem, the beginning
and just like math-when checking your method
and accuracy-
to know the solution
would be in fact, knowing the problem
names mean something
they state an identity, a location, a problem, an origin
the names of our demons are spawn from not living truth,
not recognizing self, living just nor righteously
by denying the god in us all
as to say, what binds us as one
again, what are these demons I speak of
which possess us
having us disconnected in our trivial and tribal rivalries, which we have yet to steed and bring under control
we name them by placing over scrutinized narratives prescribing titles and labels like antidotes to identify ourselves
but these states are not ourselves
we have taken the identity of our capturers unknowingly
like Stockholm syndrome
we know our demons intellectually
but not intimately
we will soon as accept them as our truth,
love as our bane
and the god in us as blasphemy
yet I tell you, there’s always a way, a sense, a calling, an imperative to get back to form, to truth
by locating ourselves
so I ask three questions so we can locate and then distinguish the actions needed to bring the demons to task
to truth
as to say, this state of disconnect, to now reconnect
where have we been
where are we now
where are we going?
is the progress we seek as a people only deduced to matters of body, its physical experiences, and acquisitions
ebbs and flows, inclinations impulses and instincts
likes and dislikes
are we just a race, class, phenotype, species, and kingdom of people that can only be measured and reduced to the lowest common denominators of preference?
if you pose the question to me, what is black history month
I will now say emphatically, it is the calling!
the calling of humanity to get back to form by the examples set forth by a people who transcended at every crossroads and against all odds imagined
a showing of human ability, by the hue of those who were and still are in many manners, considered subhumans!
everything has a consciousness, and that consciousness sets about your journey, the experiences you will have spawn of that consciousness–the coded vibration for how you see self and interact with the world
the ancestors only made distinctions by such
before the consciousness of individualism and capitalism
which birthed nationalism, nihilism
determinism
humanism
modernism
recidivism
matter of fact, any and all isms!
we had the consciousness of communalism
we were communalist
the ist
and ism
the act
and the belief, can not be separated
when we asked the question, how are you doing
we would look beyond our own personal experience into the state of our collective, community, children, country, and continent, and if all or most were not in good health, in moral standing
then we would respond that we can be better, we have been better, matter of fact, we will be better because we are better
this act was in a belief of communalism
we located ourselves, yes we, black people, I say again, we located ourselves within the collective, the macro and the micro, the individual and the whole, we would make no such distinction between one or another which we could not see at some level in ourselves
Mbutu, I need you to be as good as you can be, so I can be as good as I can be, so we can be as good as we can be
each one learns, each one teach one
a teacher not only teaches, but learns, therefore the teacher is both teacher and student, master and pupil, eye and object of desire
perspective and projection
what I’m saying is you would see self in all
not self from all
black history month is the call
the call back to consciousness which was onset of all
pan Africanism
all peoples
that’s right I said it, all peoples
African consciousness was not exclusive
it’s how strangers were let in to steal from the neighbors
the neighbors saw the strangers as neighbors
the strangers forgot we’re all gods
all bodiless bodies put into bodies to embody the bountiful boundless experience of the one body in your body
locate yourself
where are we now, where are we going
we never stopped being
we just stopped realizing that no matter where and what you saw, all you were seeing was God
although your consciousness saw demons, an unconscious disconnect
name them, and call out what all they created
once you lost and forgot, you claimed what you are not
so we can’t have any sense of equality quality or quantity until you let the god in you qualify Truth
otherwise you will be, we will be, I will be
believing like a demon
looking outside myself, idolizing just to become, still unbecoming of self
not realizing that I am them, in my own set of lessons
because I have not yet
called out
my demons
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