We come from the future
Pardon us if we are impatient with history
We come from the future
Rooted in the soil
We recall the toil
And never recoil
From the struggles to defend Mother Earth
Fixated on the innermost core
That built our past
We stand on fresh memories of defeated colonialism, neocolonialism, coloniality and mad imperialism
Pardon us if we are impatient with history
We come from the future
Our turf is to awake memories
Tenderly built by generosity
We recall the utter perplexity
Of those who revel in complexity
Building logs of life-sapping stories
Woven by beings totally at variance with Nature
Today we rebuild the broken looms
To weave lives embedded in Nature
Pardon us if we are impatient with history
We come from the future
Borne by memories of love and fires
Powered by a knowing that drives desires
And strengthened by those unseen wires
That codify and connect our cultures
Fixated on the sacred seeds across the continents
We are the builders of the dream alternatives we need
Pardon us if we are impatient with history
We come from the future
Teachings by Mother Africa, our Mother
Liberate on the canvass of fresh sensibilities
Sure, we couldn’t be so impervious
That we forget that you hold us up
That we forget that you fire us up
That we forget that you empower us
That we forget that our humanity is intertwined with all humanity.
That we are beings in the council of beings!
Today dressed in dignity and respect
Wrapped in the beautiful dressings of solidarity
We join hands across the ocean, across the desert and into the sky
And weave beautiful tapestry of alternatives
Pardon us if we are impatient with history
We come from the future
We are repairers of grand dreams of grand women and men
We are the weavers of radical love
We are those to whom departures signal arrivals
Pardon us if we are impatient with history
We come from the future
Yes, we come from the future
A variant was published in my collection I See the Invisible
