Marching to Save the Climate on a Hot April Day in DC
April 30, 2017
The Sign was not in the signs
So insightful, humorous, painful, so
Purposeful and planned.
The moment that transcended
Sharpies, poster board, and paint
Rolled up Pennsylvania Avenue
In our voices: our voice.
Conviction is a sound.
The boom and cry that is the voice
That connects each heart.
It came up the street like a movement of air
Pulsing through the thousands.
Connecting each to each.
The beat of Mother Earth in our souls.
Moments later, at two o’clock,
We were told to sit and
Make the sound of a beating heart.
clap-clap-CLAP, clap-clap-CLAP.
But we had already lived it through our howl
That flowed like a river from the Capitol to
The White House (empty, he could never
Feel that force anyway),
Before we lived it through our hands.
We Protectors of Justice,
Creators of Sanctuary
Builders of Democracy
Guardians of the Future
Defenders of Truth
Keepers of the Faith
Reshapers of Power
Strugglers for Our Home
Given a moment of beauty,
within the connective web
That unites our hearts with the wind.
Commitment is a sound:
A joy-
ous movement;
A por-
ous moment.
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