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Wandering Soul.
By Asher Fulero.
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Poems
About
Nationality
and Race
My day is not, was never, about me.
An icon cannot, ought not be a person.
Remember that, as things begin to worsen,
The day's about a dream's reality.
It is alive and relevant as ever,
Necessary vision of a goal
Lifelong, the vade mecum of a soul
Ultimately shaped by an endeavor.
There is grace and beauty in a dream,
Here to point the way to an ideal,
Even if impossible, quite real,
Resisting what's contemptible and mean.
Know that there's no rationale for hate.
It serves alone the ends of power and greed.
Nor does it spring from aught but fear and need,
Glad to be the hungry fish's bait.
Justice must come, if at all, in peace.
Robes, not guns, assume the longer lease.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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