justice and progress are paused now, as if before a high precipice. Like the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, we are not sure if we will be falcons heralding a new world being born, or a great song our people will learn together, or the storm that will change all we meet.
But whichever fate awaits us, as William Stafford's poem "Allegiances" reflects, we will have to take care of each other; we will be our own protection.
"It's late," poet Naomi Nye says, "but everything comes next."
Allegiances
from People's World: Poem of the Week: "Allegiances" in troubled times
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