In memory of Sr. Asuncion C. Martinez, ICM,84 <br /> July 21,1994 <br /> <br /> <br />Who/what shall separate her from the land <br />That birthed her and now receives her into its sanctum <br />The land she helped defend against its desecrators <br />The land she opened us to as womanness of our being <br />Redeemed and reappropriated she is volcanoes <br />Of prophetic anger and flowers of justing love <br /> <br />Who/what shall separate her from the sky <br />That assumed her dreams and prayers for justice and peace <br />Her sweet incense of sacrifice and celebration <br />The sky wide as her embrace of the poor in body and spirit <br />Remembers and releases her as care of light and shadow <br />As night shedding tears like shooting stars <br /> <br />Who/what shall separate her from the people she served <br />Of picket line and rally and violent confrontations <br />Who touched the hem of her wisdom and compassion <br />Of her golden years to heal broken spirit in a civil war <br />Sunbeam of mission and starlight of conscience is she <br />Of happy memory long into the bloodlines of future<br /><br />Francisco R. Albano<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/asun-of-the-revolution/
