Thursday, November 21Maximizing our Collective Impact

Protest

By Owen Yingling

If we could see them 
As they see us
Shades of past and
Not yet forgotten memories

They can only look
Unchangeable fragments left 
And we can only touch 
Reaching blindly towards a future 

Yet softly weeping earth I see
The vanishing light burnt out
How can it have undone so many?
Requiem for those to come

Can it still bear fruit?
Brought up from the depths
Of this humbled earth
Awoken without a sound

No relief from the task
Among these tides of bodies 
As they force their way
Ransom paid with their labor

Can they make us see?
That which will undo so much
Dim light flickering
Solace from weeping earth

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