Our Songs
By ledlevee
Fri, 27 Jan 2017
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I asked the slave picking cotton
“How did you survive?”
He turned away from the whip.
“We still had our songs.”
The Gulag prisoner
turned away from his chains.
“We still had our words.”
The Afghan woman
turned away from the stove.
“We still had our prayers.”
The North Korean farmer
turned away from his field.
“We still had our dreams.”
The holocaust survivor
turned away from the smoke and ashes
to watch orange wings of sunrise
spread across the horizon.
“We still had the sky.”
-Mike Monroe 1/26/17
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Hope, even in the darkest
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Hope, even in the darkest days. This is very touching, thank you for posting it
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