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Sharing a poem that we have been reflecting on as part of our Lenten reconciliation conversations.

Grateful for the resilience and strength of the circle of life!

RECONCILIATION (poem by Rebeka Tabobondung)

We are waking up to our history

from a forced slumber

We are breathing it into our lungs

so it will be part of us again

It will make us angry at first

because we will see how much you stole from us

and for how long you watched us suffer

we will see how you see us

and how when we copied your ways

we killed our own.

 

We will cry and cry and cry

because we can never be the same again

But we will go home to cry

and we will see ourselves in this huge mess

and we will gently whisper the circle back

and it will be old and it will be new

 

Then we will breathe our history back to you

you will feel how strong and alive it is

and you will feel yourself become a part of it

And it will shock you at first

because it is too big to see all at once

and you won't want to believe it

you will see how you see us

and all the disaster in your ways

how much we lost

 

And you will cry and cry and cry

because we can never be the same again

But we will cry with you

and we will see ourselves in this huge mess

and we will gently whisper the circle back

and it will be old and it will be new.

Great Circle of Life