This One Is For All of you
who hold their convictions with a brown fist

and speak the same

This One Is For All of you
who know the wisdom in their black hair

This One Is For All of you
who continue to keep on smiling

and bleed to tell you about it

This One Is For All of you
who meet for the first time and consider it all a reunion

This One Is For All of you
who are prepared Isangmahal poet athletes

This One Is For All of you
who fall down laughing
knowing the family will pick them up

This One Is For All of you
who are freedom

This One Is For All of you
who believe in fortunes

This One Is For All of you
who salute the poets fist

This One Is For All of you
who are a great sister of faith

This One Is For All of you
who provide us poets vans
and then drive us around where we need to be

This One Is For All of you
who believe in stories that define our own linage
and give us back strong roots

This One Is For All of you
who create yellow sister circles that

buzz of verse and direction

This One Is For All of you
who hug in tight circles like fists

This One Is For All of you

WHO CONTINUE THE JOURNEY OF THE POEM to the SUM of It 2001 Seattle