Friday, December 13, 2013

The Friday Poem: Before I Leave The Stage, by Alice Walker


Occasionally on Fridays we'll have 
The Friday Poem. (A capitalized title--and italicized!--so you know it's official and whatnot.) Famous poets, obscure poets, amateur poets, whatever poets--just a poem to end the week.

Like this one:


Before I Leave The Stage
, by Alice Walker

Before I leave the stage

I will sing the only song
I was meant truly to sing.

It is the song
of I AM.
Yes: I am Me
&
You.
WE ARE.

I love Us with every drop
of our blood
every atom of our cells
our waving particles
-undaunted flags of our Being-
neither here nor there.

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