when listening to my heart beat,
sometimes i think i hear an echo
from its chambers, an emptiness
yet resounding with anguish and
sorrow of days with grey clouds
hovering o’er
my spirit of positive hope, though, is
sustained with the will to thrive amidst
voices filled with vitriol and hate
and i am committed to share and remind
others that their choice of hope and
change must abide in their spirit
listen to the voice of our children and, also,
one in history who took on this challenge
marching on a bridge …’we shall overcome’
