Ancestor’s Roots - Sally Churgel

[Lawrence Robinson]

Ancestor’s Roots
 
Wind ripples the grass. The stalks bow in 
unison forming ocean waves of green and gold
 
You, too, bend and reach with threads, cords, 
deep roots that ripple back through time 
connecting you to your ancestors 
maybe for millennia
You hold their suffering in your DNA, marrow,
heart, dreams, in your failures, fights and flights
 
You want to cut that cord. I know you do.
You are afraid because you see them 
on those waves of time, unmoored, floating away
The grandmothers and great grandfathers, all whom you 
loved and those you never knew but want to love
In that loss you fear you will lose your way
Lose connection to your future
 
Listen. What you cut is not their love nor wisdom
You cut the anchors
the stakes in the ground
All ways their fears have kept you frozen
with unknown dreads
Their unforgiveness like burrs in 
every hug received
 
Look. When you cut the tangles, the ancestors 
can take flight
Your attachment were hooks to their heart
Freed now, they will help you remove 
the tangles that keep you from your truest self
They can surround you with
Wings of love
They will free your children’s children
Backwards and forwards, seven generations
They will
They promise
 
	- Sally Churgel
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