Benevolent and Honorable Ancestors
Spirits
Angels:
"Keep it coming,
New to me, new to you.
Mighty as an ant,
Beautiful as an orchid.
I see you all.
I write on the bus,
Crochet blankets – hand sewn, love made – during thunderstorms;
these are my offerings.
Protect me during the day
I see you around at night.
I give you this strand of hair,
It's the beholder of my secrets,
The crown of my life.
Keep it coming, keep it coming, keep me coming.
I give you all I may.
Will you accept it as I might?"
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Prayers like these mini poems,
Do not replace petitions.
But the witchier I be,
The rituals I unfold,
The wicks I burn away,
The Palo Santo I inhale,
The more hair I burn in my smudges,
All give me strength.
I've got this brujería in me.
Shrooms in my spinal fluid,
El weed in my blood.
They say you can trace your ancestry, and every bacteria you've come in contact with there.
My ancestors, Taino, Africanos, Españoles came to Borinken by choice, by force, and by nature.
My spinal fluid is the proof.
But we been brujas since the day we been around.
Look at me. Hear my prayers. Test my spine.
Bending as woman do, but unbreakable as the force we were created in.
Pues hasta la muerte seré Boricua, Bruja y Bilingüe.
Don't test me because it's true.
