Symbols
/Symbols from my childhood:
Toys
Teddy bears and wooden blocks
Bikes with cards stuck in the spokes
Sparklers in clear summer nights
Laughing crowds of happy folks
Standing for a simpler time
And a desire
For “home”
Lines
Circumscribed within a circle
Painted on a protest sign
Somber marchers in the streets
Wait destruction from on high
Standing for the fear of death
And a desire
For “peace”
Fists
Thrust in vic’try and defiance
Somberly demand and plead
Stake their claim for dignity
While at home their fellows bleed
Standing for equality
And a desire
For “rights”
Tears
Weeping down a craggy face
A Native Chief stands by roadside
Trash and garbage thrown at feet
Imploring that we too should cry
Standing for ecology
And a desire
For “Earth”
Symbols from my childhood
Scenes long past recalled
Toys and lines and fists and tears
Calling still
In waning years
Oh!
May such symbols
Cease their need
In past recede
Whilst ideals they sign
Come to this time
As lustrous pearls
In our children’s world
By Mike Turner
From: United States
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