by Dr. Linda Lorraine Bolton

Stand here: claim your place
in the spiral of history.
All life echoes in circles.
The motion of time only appears
as a line, and where, in this ocean,
are you? To live gracefully is to live
in the command of love.
To love well
is to remember that
“Nothing human is alien to me.”
If we choose not to forget
we can re-claim lost stories,
forge the circles of new family,
create new contexts for community.
Together, we can choose
to be warriors
in this ceaseless battle for justice.