SUNG ENATA Your hand of friendship was extended As kindness has a place for all Survival of a fellow traveler Fades the differences to be resolved   Refused to have you as a neighbor Subjected to barbaric brawls Banished to degrading hovels Demonized in the courtless halls   Exultant were the conquerors’ plunder Any compassion was detained Greed demands the wealth of others Without the wisdom to sustain   Your bodies broken from slavery’s labors Removed were you from antiqual homes The earth now weeps the loss of knowledge In breath and flow in the stream of love   Your hue-colored beauty existent for ages Harmony with nature born of elders beyond As friends of earth your communion sustained us In the Family of Light you’ll forever belong   Copyright © 2010, Annette Ahlers All rights reserved.