Thursday, January 28, 2010

E Pluribus: An Erasure



Bloody,

the future was anything.

The courage of divisions,

hesitations answer history.


One severe collapse deeply,

aggressively

the storm passed.

One shuttered decline

hit those who'd already

become

that much harder.

The burdens of harder and longer, less,

unable

to know the reason.


I witness;

I hear

the children.

They don't understand,

not now.

The numbing,

the different face -

they hold a better else.

They share this spirit: strength.


It begins between;

it's that we all hated - what was necessary.

More would surely be lost.

So we took,

we made,

we spent, most

but not all.

The rest, a time of need.


We cut

We cut

We cut

We cut

We cut

We cut thought

on all made possible


Act!

Act!

Act!

Act!


until there are men

and women

who focus,

do,

begin,


grit


grow


gain -

plant today

build tomorrow.







Erased from the text of Barack Obama's State of the Union Address