GODSPEED

I would have sung the same song,

I would have gone the same way along.

I would have flown with the same current,

I would have tottered with the same torrent.

I would have echoed the same word,

I would have flocked in the same herd.

But He gave me a different way,

But He saved me or I would have swayed.

“See the likeness in the differences,” he said,

“Bear the vileness in the world that as spread.

Drink the venom and be mellifluous,

Revive the wicked, greedy and malicious.

For gone are the times when foreign was the foe,

Plagued with evil are now you and your own.

Confound the ‘I’ and let the ‘Us’ win,

Purge the world where truth is a sin.

Be different the way and sturdy the steed,

Embark upon this journey, I wish you Godspeed.”