The Multi-Cultural Advantage

For John Warner Smith

Travel the world
See through his eyes
Waiting
Wanting
Waxing poetic
He knows suffering is universal
Choosing always to be
Inclusive
Living the resurrection
Not the crucifixion
When a baby cries
He doesn’t ask why
He does the natural thing and touches the pain
With gentle understanding
Having a multi-cultural advantage, he knows
Bones make the same cracking sound
When they break
Tears are all salty
All blood is red
Hearts can always be broken and
Healing happens when we share the burden

 

 

Bessie Senette is the author of Cutting the Clouds: a Bayou Mystic’s Poems, Musings, and Imaginings – an autobiographical collection of poems and essays about the life and culture of her bayou upbringing and the spirituality that informs her traditional healing gifts. As an ordained minister, she officiates an ecumenical liturgy for a small congregation of like-minded and just “slightly” wacky folk who are lovingly referred to as the Bessbyterians. Bessie is a polydactyl poet, born with six toes on her left foot. Some of her friends think she should have a reality TV show but she insists that it would have to be an UnReality show. All are certain the ratings would be astronomical.