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The Poet: Maya Angelou, “A Brave And Startling Truth”

Sunday, November 17, 2019 19:57

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“A Brave And Startling Truth”

“We, this people, on a small and lonely planet,

Traveling through casual space,

Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns,

To a destination where all signs tell us

It is possible and imperative that we learn

A brave and startling truth.

And when we come to it,

To the day of peacemaking,

When we release our fingers

From fists of hostility

And allow the pure air to cool our palms,

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet,

Whose hands can strike with such abandon

That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living,

Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness

That the haughty neck is happy to bow,

And the proud back is glad to bend.

Out of such chaos, of such contradiction

We learn that we are neither devils nor divines

When we come to it

We, this people, on this wayward, floating body,

Created on this earth, of this earth,

Have the power to fashion for this earth

A climate where every man and every woman

Can live freely without sanctimonious piety

Without crippling fear.

When we come to it,

We must confess that we are the possible

We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world,

That is when, and only when

We come to it.”

~ Maya Angelou,

“A Brave and Startling Truth”

Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-poet-maya-angelou-brave-and.html

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