Hope for America
America is an eagle. We see this amazing bird creature, with its noble eyes, and gallant wings, and posture that emanates grace, and powerful talons, and we admire it. We look at it as if it were a statue, a relic of the past. But it's alive! It moves only when we move, it is shaped by us. Its structure is laid out from the past, but its breath is what we breathe into it. She can fly!
This mighty, holy eagle can fly, and float and soar into all areas, and roam, and become great. She can transcend this moment, and reach all areas of hope and healing, if we allow her to. For that to happen, for our American eagle to soar, her left wing and her right wing must move together in grace, the dueling parts of her body must become a single, united movement.
She will not be a statue anymore. She will not only be the embodiment of potential, and of ideals, and the chance for greatness, but she will become greatness itself. She will become us.
Apathy suffocates and under-nourishes her. Hate clips her wings. Let her fly. Let her be free. Have hope for our America.
Ishmael C. Hope
Juneau