to you
to sit and dream, to sit and read,
to sit and learn about the world
outside our world of here and now-
our problem world-
to dream of vast horizons of the soul
through dreams made whole,
unfettered, free- help me!
all you who are dreamers too,
help me to make
our world anew.
i reach out my drams to you.
---langston hughes
i am stronger than a sepik crocodile, more cunning than gideon's three hundred, more powerful than david's five stones, brighter than the thunderbolts of zeus. i can change lives, resolve injustice, reverse poverty, inspire hearts and minds, connect kindred souls. i can make laughter and inspire singing, persuade lovers to find each other, strangers to make friends, and enemies to make peace. i can move mountains.
---Patricia Raybon, My First White Friend---
12.19.2005
so, poetry. so far, so good.
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