This is a poem of hope and resistance. I find it easy to ponder all of the scary challenges the world offers. I sometimes need to remind myself that a deep understanding of how the world doesn’t work also comes along with a deep understanding of how the world works, and perhaps most importantly, should or could work. I hope that today I can as enthusiastically reject the shortcomings of this world as I work to build a better possible world. Like honesty, it pays — not just as much as I’d like. May we win a better world…and change.
The World and Change
Don’t
Talk to me
A bout
How the world ain’t a changin’
Never
Know weigh
No how
Ever hedging your abets
Don’t con fuse my no’ing
How the world works
With how the world doesn’t work
In spite of awe things
Take
Aside
Dare to live
On hope a loan
That utter
Unadorned
Broken silence
Fore the least
Of these
Speak
And due
