January | 2017 | benitakape

The Battle Ahead of You – Fight On

Because today they need us –

today I claim my connection

to America. And I do this

through my grandmamma

who left Scotland and settled

near Boston, U.S.A.

And having made my explanation

and, because on Inauguration Day, 2017,

it cannot be said, as did Richard Blanco

four years ago; For All of Us, One Today,

the poets not given a voice on the podium today,

therefore in this divided and techno savvy world

I have decided I will make a ‘Virtual’ march (my

second since the poorly attended Presidential

Inauguration late January, 2017). And I find myself

standing beside the women of America.

How was it so many seem to have forgotten

“Leaves of Grass?” Walt Whitman!

But hope – a constellation for Emily Dickinson, and –

that new hope raised by Richard Blanco; that kind

of hope, yes that kind of hope, is in the breast of many

and will be revived, podiums or no. Fight on. Fight on.

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