Concealing Truths
From the Book, Unworthy Lives, Pages 73-74
Copyright © 1998, 2008
Jason Lester Atkins
985 Fleet Drive, #347
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
We witness a technologically advanced
but, barbarously blood soaked century,
continuing to destroy one another's children:
Watching a powerful civilized nation,
on which the sun never sets,
crushing still small voices of love:
Shipping thousands of their orphaned children
to the penal colony in the southern sea,
as working chattels for the Christian Brotherhood:
Watching as the faces of these lost children,
returning to their home as adults,
seeking their betrayed mother's blessings:
Seeing nineteen year old Sargent McCall,
charging a murderous Mekong gun,
losing his right shoulder and leg:
Receiving a silver star for bravery,
and limping with his nigger medal
to the back of the bus in Birmingham:
I witness this continuing concealing of timeless truths,
locked in the convulsions of our spinning histories:
Learning lessons to carry to my next re-incarnation:
All this, that Lazarus saw, I see
becoming a part of me ...
And so it goes ...
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