<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="ydpfa70ac3eyiv0914280227ydpfd6a423eMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: none !important;">Goodness Will Be Goodness</span></p><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: none !important;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: none !important;">Tyrants will roar their victories,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">painting red dreams</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">on the lids of the nation—</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">And kindness will be kindness.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Sharp-spooned greed</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">will scoop out the soft places</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">leaving only hunger—</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">and mercy will be mercy.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Fear will cry its hot misguided wrath,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">shocking sleepers into dread—</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">and courage will be courage.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Brutality will shake its tiny fist</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">gloved thick with power;</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">people will be killed in shameful ways,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">the storms of grief and rage will howl—</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">and goodness will be goodness.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">In the end, no matter the deceit,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">no matter how compelling,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">we can’t be broken from our truest selves—</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">we always circle back around</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">and find our honor where we left it.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">Our people, our whole world’s people,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">our many-colored threads</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">stretched tight in warp and weft</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">between that which knows</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">its own goodness</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">and that which does not—</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">will claim the land again for our children</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: none !important;">and the enemy’s children, too,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">mending finally all the tears</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: none !important;">in the cloth of who we once and still</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;">so dream of being.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="outline: none !important;"><br></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; outline: none !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: none !important;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Kalia Mussetter</span></div></div></body></html>