Souvenance
By James Weldon Jenkins Jr
black figures
reincarnations of our past
white silhouettes
crimson bathed
circling with
black & tan feet
melting in sand
cracked hands
beating djembes
snake-like
maracas rattle
cadenced sounds
of our
past
silver glints
through smokey
ancestral chants
tempered by
eyeless faces, possessed by
mystical ancestors
calling on
Legba
to open the gates
Ogoun
to vanquish our enemies
dance!
dance!
dance!
dance!
dance!
By James Weldon Jenkins Jr
black figures
reincarnations of our past
white silhouettes
crimson bathed
circling with
black & tan feet
melting in sand
cracked hands
beating djembes
snake-like
maracas rattle
cadenced sounds
of our
past
silver glints
through smokey
ancestral chants
tempered by
eyeless faces, possessed by
mystical ancestors
calling on
Legba
to open the gates
Ogoun
to vanquish our enemies
dance!
dance!
dance!
dance!
dance!
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