Dear Friends,
I say a word spoken
to me into my soul.
For who will believe in the truth
of the State of the Union?
Or remember
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address?
A line of a word spoken
yet if God wills it.
war will continue
until all wealth piled up
by the bondsman’s 450 years
of unrepaid toil
shall be sunk,
And until every drop of blood
drawn with the lash
shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword.
I see a sword of justice
carried across the land
From sea to shining sea
where no man is above the law
and no lie will stand.
In FDR’s First Address,
a line of words spoken,
“The only thing we have to fear
Is fear itself,”
the unjustified fear monger,
when learning to fear the lord
is the beginning
and building a wise nation
of people endowed with the wisdom of man.
How else can we face our
common difficulties of our time,
compared with the perils
which our forefather’s conquered
because they believed
and were not afraid,
even when some cried “America First”
and marched on the Avenue of Freedom
in White Hoods.
And now we know of those youths
whose hearts and eyes were stained
in bigotry and racism of the time
That we all fall short of the glory
is a proven truth,
and for the Lord’s grace and mercy,
let the people of this land work.
That the State of our Union
will not be a wall that divides us
but the wisdom of the words
spoken by wise men
and the mothers who knew.
