by Ernie McCray
I look at the election
that took place yesterday
and I can’t help but say
that “We the People”
kicked some serious ass,
making it so
that some folks
who have come close
to ending our democracy
will, in the near future,
be spoken of in the past.
I mean it was “a gas”
seeing a man gain a Senate seat
in spite
of millions of dollars being spent
to guarantee his defeat
and then hear him speak
of how it was his supporters acts of love
that enabled him to win
and it was gratifying
to a great extent
to overcome
all the gerrymandering that had taken place
throughout the United States
to disenfranchise folks of my race
and other dark-skinned humans,
an indication of how far
the nation has come
historically,
with other evidence being
a woman of African descent
rising to the position of governor of Georgia,
the first to achieve such acclaim
and a Latina doing the same in the Lone Star State
along with a Native American woman,
becoming New Mexico’s first head-of-state
and who ever imagined an Arab-Muslim man from Michigan
joining the U.S. Senate,
and an openly gay man
from New Hampshire too.
Oh, it puts me in a mellow mental state
taking into consideration
how we Americans
showed up at the polls,
our very deeds fill my soul
with a deep bright level of hope
that shines a light on a metaphoric path
in my freshly illuminated mind
leading me, in my imagination, to a new and better country,
gifting me with an exciting feeling inside
that is ever so
energizing
seemingly, in some manner,
adding years to my life,
calling on me to be grateful for still being alive
and able to continue the fight
for what is right
with pride and joy
that radiates from me
just from seeing my fellow citizens
respond
so resoundingly
and inspirationally
and purposefully
and thrillingly
to the hell we’ve been put through,
doing all that we can
to bring an end to
a poor excuse of a human being’s
unseemly regime.
And what, perhaps, has been most fulfilling
for me is that I sense
that our children are watching,
coming to an awareness
that what we’ve accomplished politically recently
was due, in great part,
to us caring for each other
and our country,
something they must continue
and pass on to future generations.
So, humanity can survive.
