Dialetical Reassessment
In all the wars
We fought for the side
That did not fight for us
Showing glad bravado in the fray
And we died
In the frantic sorrow of friends ...
Where morality has no answer
For it, the tragedy of all our life
Is not where we belong
Or which side of the fence
We climb down to fight
But what did we own?
What was right
Or any gift at all ...
For even to eat in a public space
We were made to crawl
Until our backs could take no more
Up against the silence of the wall
One woman stood ... a woman
Mothered our courage to march
Into self immolation
And claim a sliver of history.
For the birth of that determination
We have a title to nothing else
Except hope
An ever enduring faith in something
Possible beyond ourselves
It is the legacy of a dream ...
Not the wasting years of wars.
Copyright © L'Nass Shango | Year Posted 2010
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