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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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Believe Difference Flash Heart Reveal Sustained
Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Born Dignity Fire Flesh Heaven Names Taught
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Life Love Struggle
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Guilty Himself Most Seem Trayvon Martin
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Christmas Felt Healing Heart Shine Started Time
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Amazingly Armor Beneath Bone Color Mind Skin
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Broken Healing Muddy Sparkle Wing
Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Compassion Exceptional Producing relief
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Beyond Children Hate Hyenas Mother Muddy Passive Sorrow
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage

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