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.
