An ode a day for May 2014 - day 21 - To my poetry family at The World Stage

For the twenty-five years you have been on the block
In the Village
In Leimert Park
In the park
You have been the village
My village
Telling stories
For me
To me
Healing me
Brother Daood
Brother Higgins
Brother Poet
Brother Drummer
We hear you
We hear you
I hear you
All those words and rainbows
All those healing sounds
You make
We shout
Those lights you turned on
Inside us
Inside me
Me
We
So free