A Prelude to Alice Walker’s The World Has Changed
The world is changing:
Be still & know
that you remain
among possibility:
It will not
change
without
your care
without
your passion
without
your resolution
to speak
in spaces
stunned
by your audacity:
without
the
clauses
you carry
despite your refusal
to waste commas
on a future
with no clear conclusions.
The world is changing:
It will not
change
without
your
words,
your
grace
freely-given
&
undemanding
it is not
achievable
without
you.
The world is
trying
to change:
Remember your body!
Give yourself
the humanity
so long
denied.
The world is changing:
This does not mean
the present is
easy.
The world
is changing:
Rest!
Yes
&
dream!
Question the radical
lies
of
martyrdom.
The world will change:
Don’t
dismiss
the hope
waking
inside
of
you.
Micah Renner
Micah Renner (he/him) is the communications director for a United Methodist Church in San Diego, California. He volunteers with an affirming, multicongregational youth group and is currently working on a collaborative trauma-responsive grant with his home congregation and Boston University. In his free time, Micah will host showings of both LEGO movies to anyone who wants to watch.
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