Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Poem for John

hard news came yesterday
as I worked in the necessary world
of a change in the world I need

it was possible before
to think that great things could
happen and were happening

that the work could be easier
when everyone carried the same
vision for the changes needed

and as each stepped in each step
pulled the fabric of existence
up to reveal the new beauty

but now
the work seems far off
a battleground muddied and trampled

lies before us and the noise
of thunder in the distance
and we must begin again

with a step
in a new direction
to a new vision that remains unseen.

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