If I
Had been fit, at the time
After 9/ 11,
would I have lived up
to my own values fully?
Or needed to force-fit my vessel into an 8-bit camo suit,
That compromised MY personal soul mission;
To be what everyone else at the time saw to be the only version of
A “real” “Patriot”?
Likely.
Instead
Chubby, brainy, MS “rewiring” me
Found MY real patriotism+ ;
Finding Real in the
Meaning behind red, white, & blue;
And the spectral black-white that lay just
Below the service .
And I found my personal freedom
In, of, for and through me.
–As a sister, a daughter,
a friend, a lover,
a mother,
A “No one’s free until everybody’s free”,
Social justice advocating
Flower child,
Love worshipping
Mystic,
And Spiritual freedom fighting
Harriet, Fannie Lou, Ida B., and MLK Jr. emulating
Patriot+.
1.7.2023 (revised 1.14.2023)