Juneteenth - Not For Contest

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This time each year we now celebrate The conviction: love can conquer hate Yet while our journey has come so far A horizon, peaceful, still shines afar My heart-of-hearts detests the fights But we MUST push on for equal rights For all those souls thus hurt or lost Must not be ceded forsaken cost Those voices cried in pain and strife Will inspire our own to abet free life So as ONE race, of women and men The message, timeless, now-to-then Is that we'll strive for love, in hand 'Til a time ALL hearts can understand That heaven gave us this good earth To share as HUMANS, in equal worth And from the sands of struggle, sift Grains of compassion ... our greatest gift. (Yes, I wrote this before I saw that the contest was Acrostic, lol - not the first time ... it's rough, getting old) ;-)

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