To the People of the First Light
The GREAT WAMPANOUGS who
encountered on this very Day
400 years ago
I most solemnly offer
The Apology
on behalf of my Ancestor
and Ancestors as I the twelve
times Descendant of the ELDER
BREWSTER
of this then ship the MAYFLOWER
MAY THIS LANDING DAY
from here forward
be forever the DAY OF APOLOGY
thus
May we reckon with the TRUTH
of our collective unconsciousness
and denial, US of the Mayflower
that then we “separatists”
yes, from our very own skin
by “manifest” means the grand
Geographic, we fled the very
royals as we became them….
the irreverent, selfish
impetulance, raping the land
and the people of the land
while driven by our fears
and their greeds, a thirst
we could never quench, for
FREEDOM from bondage….
We Declared it even as
we defined it on the backs
and throats of others we enslaved
in our devastating atrocities
the tortuous annihilation
of our most treasured teachers
the Native Peoples most especially the Wampanoags
who lived in REVERENCE with/of
these Sacred Lands that
We took
without permission
without respect
without welcome
and the most outrageous act of all of it:
We claimed it as our divine right, as if
we were in alignment with a GOD….
I shudder inside with the righteousness, this MADNESS
FOR I MYSELF
I know the unsealed
in me, in us, fleeing
abuse, perpetration, persecution
of our rights to worship
becomes the very perpetrators,
the persecutors of others
spiritual rights to practice
to express…
So lost are we in our pain…
so removed from our true selves
in trauma, we do the
unspeakable…
Thats how it rolls through us
generations of
dis-ease
A FATAL REPETITION
may some hero will right
the boat: insanity prevails
A LETHAL TRAINING
AN INHERITANCE of the
MOST DANGEROUS
KIND….
UNTIL we turn
and face the
STORY, the abuse
stand in the trauma
and TRUTH
see our reflection and
pause
then
pause
breath
We don’t do this alone
and then come back, return
to the FIRST PEOPLES
and extend the hands
of the APOLOGY
the absolute undeniable
grace of humanity
only when this is done
one by one all the descendants
together, then can a clear
bearing emerge from
the DIVINE COMPASS
towards the course of
AMENDS
There must be
an APOLOGY
TODAY!
Let this the Landing Day
be set from here forth
the Day of the Apology
and let it begin with me!
OH GREAT WAMPANOAGS
and all native peoples
from twelve thousand
years and beyond
my heartfelt
apology
with love
to love
your
CAPTAIN
BREWSTER X