My Life Circle
I am my past, my history – the 60’s and the 70’s, war, anti-war, peace, love,
justice, injustice, power, prejudice, Black pride, movements, music singing
“young, gifted and Black,” “a lovely, precious dream”
I am the efforts of change that promised hope, that worked, that failed
I am a dream deferred, the unrealized change that engendered and
entrenched our people and our communities’ anger, despair, apathy
I am the 70’s individualism, it’s all about me
I am the 80’s loss of self, directionless, crack cocaine conspiracy genocide
suicide
I am the 90’s Wall Street, corporate face over a colored face
I am new millennium fog, where am I, where did I go, what did I start with,
what did I have, is there anything left?
I am post-millennial rising, reconnecting, mattering, moving to grow, seeking,
seeing purpose, living in intention, driven, aligned, discerning, taking
responsibility, owning on my mission, gifted, favored, guided love, not alone
I am a multiracial, multicultural mindset, conscious and seeing beyond, living
peace, operating free outside of stereotypical racial differences, divisions, and
bounds
I am a community re-engineer, a warrior-peacemaker, a spirit embodied,
unique entity, an un-shamed worshiper, a creative thought leader, a called,
annointed, all-intersecting being
I am my past, my history, my present, my future, my resurrected, redeemed,
fully-empowered, completed state
I am ready
I am worthy
I am equipped
I am enough
© 2016 Linda A. Bridgers