IN PRAISE & REMEMBRANCE OF BLACK FATHERS EVERYWHERE
in praise & remembrance of black fathers in hand made sandals
or bare feet
who with their resourceful wives & children
were born in a world
when nothing had a name
yet through trial & error portals of intuition & spirit
pushed earth’s history into position for its’ dawning song
from lush or arid bush
black fathers journeyed through mystery & uncertainty
to ponder & define
connections to each evolutionary step
then from mud huts designed & organized city states
wrote & divined countless books for the world’s first libraries
danced with ghosts & created the 7 wonders of the world
empowered their own volition to formulate
& define the context & parameters for geometry’s
source & use
then woke up mathematics from its’ second sleep
to map out a galaxy of stars while sleeping on verdant savannas
that teemed with predators & virgin roads
roads that our early black fathers feet made as each discovery
arrived through a primal scream