There is a need for wider wisdom.

I feel it every time I try to write–

the fact that poetry

is important

must

change lives

first by bringing the shards garnered

together into meaningful art

then in making the future possible

You want it too

respond like a lover

longing for the uncovering

the prospect of satiation

Somehow I have come back to believing in it

the dream of changing lives

Somehow after all the years

of despair, disregard, diversion

Somehow the promise –

that words may have knowledge

and power –

returns

from Harmonies/Disharmonies

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