Sunday, May 22, 2011

hurrah


Cheers  for one,
he got the worst and the best.
Deserved peace, but spent so many years
at war with indecency and fear, brutality.

Not chosen,
not deserved, 
not deserved at all.
fighting the indecency that brought us down.
Aren't we, aren't we to fight?

Some will not, 
some can not, 
I'm not sure, but 
as well as they can.
Some will keep the balance 
as hard as they can!
as hard as they can.

Don't stop, you who were knocked down.
And we won't!

He reaches, and continues to reach for the right.
Sharing it when received.
Zig zagging out of the wrong 
as fast as he can!
as fast as he can.

We did our best, they say,
crawling til walking
then running in joy.


Some came who could, who would.
Some could not come, 
or, wouldn't, 
I'm not sure, but
we all tried as we could,
we tried as we would.

Time now rests on laurels.
Laurels on a rested head.
He stands now as he wished, and wishes.
Let the wounded go on now.
Let us each go on ahead,
And we go by, into what's right.

Hurrah for the man who
directed the war 
led and fell back
leading the wounded,
willing or not.

Trying, looking to good and to right
and then stepping back
when it was time.