Great Again

Show me how to love the world, again

Great Again

Make America generous again,
generative again. Make America gentle 
again, gorgeous again, gleaming again. 
Make America gracious again, glad again, 
my heart soar again. Give me a country 
that teaches me how to smile again, feel 
wild again, st st stutterin, how to hold 
in my hand a stone and cry again, touch 
the sky with my tongue again, sing again, 
press my ribs into a tree again, praise 
again, pray again, exalt each name again, 
grieve again. Feel the holy creature in me 
again. Bud green again. Kiss the ground 
again. Tell me your story, again. Tell me 
about despair, yours, again. Show me 
how to love the world, again. Show me 
how to love the world, again. Show me 
how to love the world, again. Make all 
God again. Show me how to love 
everything, again, everyone, again.

- Moudi Sbeity

Photo by Bekky Bekks on Unsplash

A little protest poem for today because it felt right. Sometimes I wonder what to call something like this. A poem or a plea? Just some uninhibited expression that needs to be said.