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.

I Wish (A Poem)

I wish I had it in me
to pity the
hateful people
who’ve brought us to this precipice.
Taught only to be
afraid and angry,
the rage is all they’ve got.
I wish I were strong enough to
give them grace.
But I’m not.