For You

For you

Word for word, poem for poem,
I strive match my mind with the greatest of them:
Those who are remembered not for their legacies of invention;
Those who are remembered not for their great inheritances of wealth;
Those who are remembered not for the inheritance of power,
nor as the offspring of great statesman;
Those who are remembered not for their barbaric atrocities of tyranny,
But for those with wisdom, compassion and yearning for truth and good
Those remembered and those unmentioned millions who dream and challenge the world to bend and sway in political reform
and are never known.
Those of you--I know you are out there, for I have met many—
who conspire compassion and philosophic philanthropy;
who literate literal truths;
who prophesize prosperity thru proper peaceful progression:
I recognize you.
To those who cry at night alone for the injustice of the ignorant,
who’s confusion can convince the millions and multitudes to follow blindly;
to those who wish to effuse education with excitement
and lavish learned wisdom upon the billions of equals spread out in this earth;
To those who, sad eyed and solemn discuss the import of expansive understanding of this race as one;
To those who see more than the almighty dollar, or yen, or lira, or deutschmark, or peso or euro or amero;
Those who see more than a signature to signify accomplishments;
To those who continually strive to reach further
And read and learn and expand themselves beyond these mortal bodies.
You say that hope exists, and together we will overcome.
To love, learn, laugh, and never regret your short time spent.
I too, wish for you as I wish for myself
To all the Socrates, Buddhas, Platos, Ghandis, Boddhisatvas and saints,
to all the Mother Teresa's, and Ammas, I beg of you to continue,
for your kindred spirits are here for you.

August 1999