Ideologies flooding
the minds of people,
finger-pointing, name-
calling accusations
have become the standard
by which we judge. I walk
out of my apartment
in the morning
with trepidation
at what a new day
might bring, will division
splinter the thread
of our common humanity?
And I feel, deeply, the conviction
that we need the dawning
of a new spirit, a spirit
of compassion, of courage,
of resolution, of integrity,
people willing
to stand above the noise
of collective evil,
to forgo their partisanship
to surrender their hearts
to show America
to show the world
that the Abraham Lincolns,
the Martin Luther Kings,
the Clara Bartons,
of our age
can arise;
I have faith
that the spirit of God,
displayed in the lives
of Billy Graham,
Mother Teresa,
and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
is still brewing
in the hearts
of men and women
in this country &
across the globe.
We cannot,
we must not surrender
our land, our heritage
to prideful, egotistical
selfishness, to our
lack of character,
to our unwillingness
to listen & obey
the commands
of God. If we
are to survive,
we must come
to the table
with the humility
of Christ, proceeding
in the memory
of the brave
and upholding
the values
of the free,
to show the world
that this great
experiment
allowing
us
to live,
to breathe,
to worship
in liberty
is not doomed
to failure and anarchy,
that prayers for our nation
and our world can overcome
seemingly insurmountable odds
and that we have not lost our foundation
of faith, that the thinkers and the tinkers,
the native and the stranger can unite under
the values handed down to us by our forefathers.
So when you wake tomorrow, pray, pray
for the restoration of love & respect,
pray for the revival of our nation,
and the forgiveness of our
sins, pray for real peace,
for meekness, for
the ability to see
the other & for
the light
of truth
to reign
supreme.
