Messages From Carrie
We The People
November 7th, 2008
We
The people
Walked out upon the shuttering banks
To meet the approaching storm,
We lifted up our arms and hands,
Planted our collective feet,
And shouted at the forces that threatened
to devour and divide,
"You shall come no further"
"You shall not make us foolish with our fears"
"Justice was only sleeping
and now the sleeper wakes."
We nod and smile at one another,
flipping playing cards into the wind.
For of all the dangerous combinations,
put together by bad luck or deception,
Love is still the stronger hand.
We point our many hopeful fingers,
Turn our eyes toward the outline,
of a green and distant shore.
And we,
the people,
Step out onto damp, but solid ground,
Knowing that the shape of our imagining,
Like the rhythm of our walking,
Has only just begun.
Carrie Newcomer
Nov 6, 2008