In This Broken Time - Kalia Mussetter

[Larry Robinson]

In This Broken Time
 

Tyrants will roar their victories,
painting their red dreams 
on the lids of the nation—
And kindness will be kindness.
Greed will scoop out the soft places
with sharp spoons 
leaving only hunger— 
And mercy will be mercy.
Fear will cry its hot misguided wrath,
sending nightmares through the land, 
shocking dreamers from their sleep in dread—
And courage will be courage.
Brutality will shake its tiny fist 
gloved thick with power;
people will be killed in shameful ways, 
the storms of grief and rage will howl—
And goodness will be goodness.
In the end, no matter the deceit,
no matter how compelling, 
we can’t be broken from our truest selves—
we always circle back around
and find our honor where we left it.
Our people, our American people, 
our many-colored threads
stretched tight in warp and weft 
between that which knows
its own goodness 
and that which does not—
Will claim the land again for our children
and the enemy’s children, too,
mending finally all the tears in the
cloth of who we once and still 
so dream of being.
 
	- Kalia Mussetter

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