| Artist and Poet: D. Morris Holguin | ||||||||
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| YOU TAKE WHO TAKES YOU FINAL III | ||||||||
| To the Dispossessed
My feet must firmly stand upon a piece of Earth upon a piece of land. �And in each moment as I move through time and space I own that which I occupy. No more, no less. Though some mighty earthly power has sold off real estate, there is no ownership that is not somehow in a cosmic sense, ABSURD �I only own the words I speak and even these fly away in time. The paper upon which I write dissolves with time. The earth for which I have a deed is always stolen from another. I lay claim to only that which is divinely mine. I am a steward of the land. It belongs to me because I care for it. I feed it and am watchful Of its inhabitants. �But I am only one mere being And only something greater than myself can truly own this job this land this real estate. I live here by that one�s PERMISSION. My success is that when I leave, The space I occupied is as sacred and kept as when I arrived. my Birth nourished my Death nourished my life did not defile the Earth nor its inhabitants. My life enhanced this place. my life nourished. My footprints are the only evidence of ownership. |
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