<html aria-label="message body"><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="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="ydpb760524cyiv4204594374ydpfa70ac3eyiv0914280227ydpfd6a423eMsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Goodness Will Be Goodness</font></span></p><p class="ydpb760524cyiv4204594374ydpfa70ac3eyiv0914280227ydpfd6a423eMsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></span></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"> </font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Tyrants will roar their victories,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">painting red dreams</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">on the lids of the nation—</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">And kindness will be kindness.</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Sharp-spooned greed</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">will scoop out the soft places</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">leaving only hunger—</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">and mercy will be mercy.</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Fear will cry its hot misguided wrath,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">shocking sleepers into dread—</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">and courage will be courage.</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Brutality will shake its tiny fist</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">gloved thick with power;</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">people will be killed in shameful ways,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">the storms of grief and rage will howl—</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">and goodness will be goodness.</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">In the end, no matter the deceit,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">no matter how compelling,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">we can’t be broken from our truest selves—</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">we always circle back around</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">and find our honor where we left it.</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">Our people, our whole world’s people,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">our many-colored threads</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">stretched tight in warp and weft</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">between that which knows</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">its own goodness</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">and that which does not—</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">will claim the land again for our children</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">and the enemy’s children, too,</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">mending finally all the tears</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">in the cloth of who we once and still</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;">so dream of being.</font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><br></font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(38, 40, 42); color: rgb(38, 40, 42); margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 16px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><span style="line-height: 15.3333px; outline: currentcolor !important;"><font size="5" style="font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Kalia Mussetter</font></span></div></div></body></html>