Gregory Richard Barden Poet Couplet

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Juneteenth - Not For Contest

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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