I saw Georgian folk musicians perform today, Zedashe, and they were wonderful. They gave some of the history of how Christianity came to their country so long ago.
Georgian Gods
Delight in the dance of delphiniums
and doves
Floating by me in songs hypnotic,
lurching, sliding
To carve out the hills
they emerge from
The people fierce to
survive the Pagan rights described
Miracle believed in a
young girl following her heart through the mountains
To give her life to
those she only had heard about
To know nothing but a
dream
A vision of a mother she’d
listened to stories
Of her virgin power
beyond the grave
The boy who grew up and
saved her
Now ring smiles on folk
artists thousands of years later
To explain this history
While singing the
ancient songs
With new hearts
Shining joy
Fevered friendship
In a foreign land
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