Time to share a poem!
Leave the lonely island
Leave its hate
Leave its difficulties
And all its shores behind
Pick up
A stone of love
A stone of peace
A stone of hope
Throw a stone of mercy
Wrap them in a
Paper of compassion
Paper of justice
Paper of steadfastness
Papers telling the truth
Swallow loneliness
Swallow disconnection
Swallow shadows
So they leave this world
Spit out the barbed wire
Push down the guarded walls
Put up to
Keep the people out
Cut through the grass
Of misconceptions
of colour, religion and race that
History has grown long
Scissor your soul free
with all the suffering you have seen
Build soul force
Sail past all that becalms
the soul
Now
Rise, rise, rise up
Fly, fly up, fly on..
Let freedom become ….
Let freedom ring
Let freedom sing
Let freedom be
(c) June Perkins, inspired by Martin Luther King, I have a…
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