What a blessing to have someone as insightful and outspoken as Nikki Giovanni on your side. Our side. The people’s side. Love’s side. The children’s side of life!
What a blessing to speak loud and strong, clearly understood in just a syllable or two…with love. With love. With HOPE.
What an ideal to follow. What an example to be repeated.
Stand up Virginia Tech with Ms. Giovanni and let the world know that you are capable of love, and hope, and forgiveness.
RELIEFÂ
Go through your stages
your rages
of pain and anger.
Your losses will make you feel
ten thousand crosses
so unreal.
This is the present.
The here. The now.
The adult.
That human factor we look towards when young.
Although this freedom
that arrives is not what we had thought,
And so our heads are hung
within a stinging plot
of time. And time itself
will reveal who and how and when and what,
far beyond the cut you feel inside your soul.
Who is reaching outwards to be made whole?
We are allowed, all owed one prayer to peace,
and in so praying
will release
ten thousands crosses, victims all,
reaching inward to the call of grief.
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