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The latter portion of this piece is in conversation with "Invocation" by Elizabeth Alexander, as discovered at the Civil Rights National Monument, Birmingham, Alabama.

Hear unsilenced hope here, Nothing is not lost. Hopelessness the enemy of justice round some other's bend. Music resounds appositions against fear. Anthems rise solidarity within Earth's righteous anger. Praise conserves liberal motion. Emotion co-arises dipolar passions. Climate pathology may not become the responsibility of white privilege. Yet, healthy climates may heal both our oppression of Earth's sacred integrity and our white privileged victimizations. Wealthy multicultural opportunities re-present risks for and of further monoculturing fragmentation apartheid disassociations conserving silos of hopelessly unfree silence. This is our liberal conserving health, Earth wealth cooperatively inclusive, interdependently webbed agenda. We know we are conservatively listening win/win leaders when liberally correct issues are also Earth-centered conservational anthems singing courageous praise against the fake win/lose face of either totalitarian power or universal fear. Active hope is the ally of Earth's great restoring justice for all, they and we eco and ego yin and yang universal health and unitarian wealth. If all faith speaks with liberal political correctness, so too all hope erupts from silent win/win conserving power noticing risks of disempowering silence missing opportunities for re-empowering healthy natural wealth between all souls among all soils all fearful angry lynching all courageous songs unflinching. Music heals through wind and water carried keening secular mundane hate become sacred epic texts re-formed ego-wind with eco-water lyrics singing unsilenced sorrow. Hear hope here. Nothing is not lost through complacent silence.

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