Destiny Manifest

We CAME from CA to ME  Seeking less stress more for less A chance to enhance this opportunity to nest Grow roots on our Oak-tree near Spruces and Pines A star to reflect how we both are aligned A reprieve from the hamster wheels of nickels and dimes From the Silicon Valley that was flooded with crimes The gun points and tip toes of walking the lines A safe passage to freedoms that lived only in our minds  To inhale fresh air without smoke from the vines A leap of faith into this unknown the beautiful divine From tragedy riddled streets as we choked in our primes The greed, drought and illnesses all signs of a time  It was time. C A sky full of birds and an ocean Lobster boats to M E E T home Welcomed from the Golden Gate To vacationland we needed a break from the overstimulation of noises and perpetual maidens and Peter Pans.  We paid Attention too much without a return on our investments and set our sights on the land of this lands original people’s From the Ohlone to the Wabanaki From the Spanish Presidios, greedy gold rushes, and great migrants back to the trickery of the French & British colonization We returned with similar hopes to attain life, liberty and the pursuit of prosperity, property, and happiness From our union we planted a beautiful seed of hope with new ideas and a new generation, a new Mainer Born into a lineage of educators, scientists, social workers, warriors, activists, change and freedom makers, sailors, and people who move mountains with faith… We CAME from California to Maine and brought all of our ancestors along from their various journeys from Sea to shining Sea and back again… from the blood shed of innocence and ignorance to the place strangers were once welcomed before they spread like cancer OR COVID-19 Seeking a better life like so many more before us To find our path along the tracks that led so many to freedom To reinvent ourselves in the Whitest state that once purged itself of color after crafting merchant ships for enslavement to now trolling the bottoms for its greatest export Like the native lands in between, Woodie Guthrie lied… This land was and is Wabanaki To acknowledge that alone is not enough Lights, Camera… Action is what we need. We CAME from CA to ME To write a new chapter To right old wrongs Full circle On our Destiny Manifest