Better Angels (A Poem…)

(…for Election Day here in the USA.)

Somewhere in the spacious skies
sings a choir of our better angels.
Up above the grains and plains and
out over the purple mountains,
their voices carry our hopes and dreams
and proclaim our ringing freedom
to all this united land made for you and me,
for our one nation and its free people
on this day of sacred democracy.
I sure hope we’re listening.

Future (A Poem)

I have a
little girl
to take care of.
Her world,
her future,
her life –
they start with me.
To teach her to be
kind
and
clever,
to show her
love –
how to and why –
and when it’s right to fight.
And to never deny
the darkness,
but always
always
always
help her shine her light.
Nothing else matters.
Everything matters.