Tuesday 26 July 2022

A Poem a Day (525): Straight

 
Straight
 
From the hip-hop bars
to the reggae stars
to the metal allegiance,
they’re giving it one love,
showing the proof,
‘ain’t that the truth,
of how things can be,
the constant tree.
 
From small acorns...
and the spirit yearns.
 
From division to separation
to letting things see,
unity out of segregation,
bringing it in, no fee,
undivided, unseparated,
we count the names narrated.
The newborn cries an untold story,
the old looks back in memory.
 
Flick forward,
flick back.
 
The jumping jack grinning
as the world keeps spinning
on its wheels,
hoping everyone heals.
You wanna jump from the sky
cos it’s oh so high,
but you’re no longer falling,
where you came a-crawling,
 
seeing what’s right,
keeping on the light.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, July 26, 2022
 


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