We are all Africans,
children of happy Pygmies
who gave up the Garden of Eden
sixty millennia ago
to see the rest
of the world.
The naked forest-dwellers
are still inside us.
We must help them
to regain the Garden.
ᏂᎦᏛ ᎢᏧᎳ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎠᎬᎾᎨ-ᎡᎶᎯ ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ,
ᏗᏂᏲᏟ ᎠᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᏈᎩᎻ ᎥᎿᎢ
Ꮎ ᎠᎿᎩᏍᏗᏱᏎ ᎠᏫᏒᏅ-ᎢᏓᏂ
ᏑᏓᎵᏍᎪᎯ ᎠᎦᏴᎵᏗ ᏧᏕᏘᏴᏓ ᎢᏳ-ᏥᎨᏒ
ᎪᏩᏘ ᏩᎵᏃᎯᏯᏍᎬᏁ ᎡᏆ-ᎡᎶᎯ ᎥᎿᎢ.
ᎤᏰᎸᎭ ᎢᎾᎨᎢ-ᎡᎯᏗ
ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᏙᎢ ᎢᏧᎸ ᎭᏫᏂ.
ᎢᏧᎳ ᎠᏎ ᎠᎵᏍᏕᎸᏗ ᎾᏍᎩᏛᏁ
ᎠᏩᏛᏗ ᎠᏫᏒᏅᏁ
ᎠᏏᏉ.
Text and image © 2019 by Donald C. Traxler.