Hug

 

Native Americans came here

from somewhere else,

just like Europeans.

So did Asians, Arabs, and Africans.

Were there pilgrims from another star

here too, before any of us?

They also came from somewhere else.

And where is "somewhere else"?

Maybe we all came

from the same place

just beneath your heartbeat,

where breath rises and returns.

Some day we'll all go home.

Our Mother will hug us

and we'll remember each other.

"Oh, its you, I forgot

that all of us come

from right here!"

Art by Jane Ray