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A Proclamation

January 18, 2018 Carlo Busby
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As we move into a new year with determination and resolve, we share this poem with you; for best effect try reading it aloud: 

Proclamation
  
Whereas the world is a house on fire; 
Whereas the nations are filled with shouting; 
Whereas hope seems small, sometimes a single bird on a wire left by migration behind. 
Whereas kindness is seldom in the news and peace an abstraction while war is real; 
Whereas words are all I have; 
Whereas my life is short; 
Whereas I am afraid; 
Whereas I am free -
despite all fire and anger and fear;

Be it therefore resolved
a song shall be my calling -
a song not yet made shall be vocation 
and peaceful words the work of my remaining days.


Text by Kim Stafford  
Photo by
MyLittlePixels

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