Change
12/16
It doesn’t begin
with the report of a gun,
or the rantings of a madman.
It doesn’t begin
with a hopeless dream.
It doesn’t begin
with a perhaps
or a maybe,
or with some meticulously, well thought out plan.
It doesn’t begin
with the wisdom of sages,
or the courage of a martyr.
It begins simply
with the word
“enough.”
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3/24/18
Something
is happening.
Something
is boiling
over.
Someone is
standing up
and call them
out.
Someone is saying
it’s time to stop
spinning
and lying
and revising
and pretending.
Someone is saying
it’s time to stop acting
as if up is down
or old is new,
that it’s time
to stop recycling
theories
and slogans
that didn’t work
the first time
they were trotted out
as “the great solution”,
(and certainly won’t work
now!).
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3/25/18
You can’t turn back
truth-
you can you push
it back
or hold it off
for the moment,
but you can’t turn back
truth.
You can’t turn back
truth-
you can deny it,
you can hide it
or run from it,
but you can’t turn back
truth,
once it’s on it’s way,
it is coming
straight for you.
Something
is happening,
something
is boiling
over,
someone
is standing up
to say
#This ends
here.
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3/24/18
You cannot wear
honor
like some kind of
a badge,
any more than
wearing a flag
on your lapel
or a patch on
your shoulder
makes you patriotic.
You don’t put it on
or pretend it’s there
just because you can
say the word.
Honor
is the respect
for what is right,
beyond your interpretation
or myopic,
self-centered
view.
Honor
is not worn
like some kind of patch
on your shoulder
or like some kind of
epaulet,
or something to be waved
like some banner
or flag-
honor
is the respect
for what is right.
