Renewed

I set

Cups

tazón y caldera

Bowls of water

Brooms

Spoons

out for display

Our voice

our love

our food

our fires lit

candles in the dark

We indeed are a sum total

the past a lost lineage, ancestral ghosts walk with we.

and we reach

back over the gap of colonization...taking back what was lost.

what was taken.

We move within, removed...

Connecting dots that seem random but

lead us

to rituals long gone

now we

renewed

Spirits once ignored

reviewed

heard

rehearsed songs

from long ago, ring truth

and we teach

our loves, the songs of our loves

enlightened

enriched

and renewed