On the occasion of Barak Obama's Inauguration, a poem...

From the desk of Pablo, guerrilla poet, who might have been reading a poem at today's inauguration if only he had been in touch to let them know he was out there.  Just following in the footsteps of my Uncle Cyril, who could have won the Pulitzer prize, if only...

To our newly reelected president, who is too good for this country.  They say a nation gets the leaders they deserve, but with this thoughtful man, I'm not sure that is the case.   To choose to continue to want to preside over a country so consumed with hate...


                                            It is by different rivers
                                            that we arrive here,
                                            moving alone together
                                            in uncertain unison,
                                            tethered by a history
                                            not of our own making and
                                            sharing only the insidious
                                            distrust of familiar strangers
                                            bequeathed to us by our fathers
                                            who could not have known
                                            or wished upon us
                                            the bitter fruits
                                            we have been left to harvest.


                                                              Pablo