For This Is The Faith We Hold


from the ABC set poemsbypaulmccann

The crowds came from every State to welcome change inside the Governments door .

A figure of one with a patient tone talking to a billion or more .

Ever so slowly his sculptured words carved history on the Whitehouse walls .

Its was more than words , it was belief in what his term of office installs .

Wise men and clerics placed relics of the past
and Obama spoke of love .

He spoke of hard times ahead and glanced ,now and then up to heaven above .

He spoke of change and the need to harness
the power of the wind and sun .

He echoed words of statues that gather no moss
where slavery begun .

He spoke of a future , in a strength of character that not many own .

When new horizons were achieved by seeds of faith that today we have sewn .

In the hands of labourers both black and white
are these seeds now being thrown .

This faith we hold is a solid thing and it can never be overthrown .

Faith it remains as it ever was the corner stone that we build upon .

At the corner stone we place our hopes and dreams .
In God we trust and move on .

For this is the faith we hold and we respect the rights of woman and man .

The master piece of life a timeless treasure carved in the palm of Gods hand .

By Paul McCann

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