Inaugural Poem Offering

Inaugural Poem Offering

It’s been so long I’d almost forgotten
that feeling you get when you
walk down the street, 
nodding to one another like family. 
When we all seem to be singing 
the same song in our heads
in time to the beat of one great heart,
an American heart,
a heart lifted up out of despair
into the phenomenal possible
by the smallest of words:
Hope.
Not perfection, 
not certainty, 
not even probability.
Only Hope,
planted like a seed by Faith, 
wintered over in Promise, 
waiting for this moment 
to spring up,
against all odds, 
Stubborn, Alive
Joyous, Joyous! 
Defying, at last denying 
the dark and fear-frozen ground.