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It is good to be thankful.
It is good to be free.
It is good to hope
and dance so merrily.
It is good to be thankful.
It is good if we can see
it is good to keep trying
to save our beloved country.
It is good to be thankful.
It is good for more than me.
It is good for every “other”
who turns I into we.
It is good to be thankful.
But I want so much more.
I want each of us to lift
the light beside an open door.
I want each of us to hold and defend
our sacred declared text and constitution.
I want each of us to pledge
we will begin again
and set aside fearful pride
alongside those who deny
the Rule of Law and all it means,
as it loss threatens the safety
of ourselves, and every sister and brother.
I want each of us to vote the bums out.
I want each of us to cry freedom and shout
“We ain’t buying it !”
to all those who sold us out
so they alone can dance merrily in a ballroom
built on East Wing destruction,
giving in to autocrats’ seduction.
It is good to be thankful.
It is good to be free.
But, only if we all can be
and only if we all
can dance so merrily.
Too many did not think this is how it would be.
They ignored the liberal thinkers they deplore,
and wholeheartedly ignored
the warnings and pleas to face reality.
Instead, they refused to see,
they refused to look into the mirror
of their own racist, sexist depravity.
It was easier to look away.
They knew they would not like
what they would see.
They felt affirmed and at their ease.
But only for a moment.
Now, this is where we are, but need not be.
It is good to be thankful.
It is good to stay free.
annarino writes 