Friday, January 23, 2009
Need Your Feedback
Which of the three possible covers for my next volume of poetry do you respond to best? You can comment here or send me an email with your comments. Thanks!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Yesterday's Dream Becomes Tomorrow's Reality
Whom we celebrate on January 19, 2009 and whom we will inaugurate on January 20, 2009 are proof positive that dreams do come true.
Inauguration of Hope
Look what happened when they took the chains off and gave us access
Look where we went with the width and the breath of the wisdom
given us
by He who created the universe.
When the doors opened we rushed through them,
Not to pilfer, but to drink from the fountains that used to tell us ‘no’.
Those who came before us bent their backs willingly for us
To step up on them and reach a little higher.
Those who had the vision knew that sometimes it would require
The very life they lived for a few to make it over to the other side.
When we got there, the mantle finally passed our way,
We did not scream for retribution or blood gifts to right the wrong,
We came with hope and change, promise and dreams for all.
Suppose there had never been chains to contain us
Suppose we had always been privy to the dream
But suppose only for a moment since the path before us starts today.
Inauguration of Hope
Copyright Peggy Eldridge-Love - 2009
Look what happened when they took the chains off and gave us access
Look where we went with the width and the breath of the wisdom
given us
by He who created the universe.
When the doors opened we rushed through them,
Not to pilfer, but to drink from the fountains that used to tell us ‘no’.
Those who came before us bent their backs willingly for us
To step up on them and reach a little higher.
Those who had the vision knew that sometimes it would require
The very life they lived for a few to make it over to the other side.
When we got there, the mantle finally passed our way,
We did not scream for retribution or blood gifts to right the wrong,
We came with hope and change, promise and dreams for all.
Suppose there had never been chains to contain us
Suppose we had always been privy to the dream
But suppose only for a moment since the path before us starts today.
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