Drumming Back To Freedom…

Photo by Toni Roberts; Djembe

Ah…

   the weather is finally warming…

soon it will be time to

return to the

   park…

to the

   drums…

drumming back to freedom

   under the heat of the city sun…

back to

   Africa…

back to

      freedom…

Yemaya–Photo by Toni Roberts

 

dancing to the call of the

orishas...

Photo by Toni Roberts

in the wild abandon of

forgetfulness

we are back in the

   bush...

Tools for Journeying…Photo by Toni Roberts

 

released from our

   rat-infested tenements…

from the

drugs

crime

grinding poverty

and

devastation

that has not abated since first they

dragged us

bound

and

chained

across the waters

to this

new world…

this new version of

hell

called

modern

western

      civilization…

Grandfathers and Drum; Photo by Toni Roberts

   and so…

in the noisy

crowded summer heat

of a Harlem park

we beat our drums

and dance our way

back home

to

Africa...

to the

   Motherland…

to

   Freedom…

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