Who Could Not Love You ?

A Poem of Hope and Aspiration to an American President.

Who Could Not Love You ?

 

Dear President Barak Hussein Obama,

 

Who Could Not Love You ?

The Idea of You…..

The Healing Power of what You Can, Do and Will Represent ?

The Hopes and Dreams You Can, Do and Will Aspire Toward -

The Faith filled Words We the People

Can, Do and Will continue to Aspire and Act Toward -

Freedom, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Justice for All

Tolerance and Dignity for All

Opportunities for All

And the Responsibilities and Mutabilities inherent

Within Each and Every Word

Each and Every Universal Idea ?

For a Nation’s Growth

Much like an Individual’s Growth

Is a Constant and Ever Changing

Struggle and Process

 

Who Could Not Love You ?

The Idea of You…..

The Healing Power of what You Embody ?

A Man of Flesh and Bone

And Will of Stone

Born from Atomic Mother Earth

And but One of a Multitude of Questing Molecules

Mapping its Time and Space within

The swirling Cosmic Galactic Skies

Another Living Branch

Springing forth from the Singing Tree of Life

A Man

An Obsidian Man

An Alabaster Man

A Man with Roots in an enigmatic and tumultuous Dark Continent

A Man with Roots in an restless and far reaching European Continent

Those Roots Intertwined and Burgeoning Forth

From an Oceanic and Volcanic Hawaiian-American Island

And an Overshadowing, Multi-faceted North American Continent

Roots Nurtured and Sustained within

The Fertile Soil of Evolutionary Ideas -

Of Freedom for All

Of Liberty for All

Of the Pursuit of Happiness for All

Of Tolerance and Dignity for All

Of Justice for All

Of Opportunities for All

 

A Man

A Man of the Times

Of this very Particular and Evolutionary Space in Time

A Man whose Life’s Poetry, Prose, Law and Voice

Strive to Reverberate what is Best

What is Brightest and most Noble

Within the Heart, Mind and Soul of America

Of Americans

Of the World

Of One Man

Of One Woman

Of One Nation

Of One World

Moving and Thriving

Under the Great GreenLeaf Canopy

Of Humanity’s Highest Individual and Collective Ideals,

Aspirations and Actions

Acknowledging and Forgiving

The Human Frailties, Flaws and Weariness of Spirit

That can diminish and EnSlave All of Us

From One Moment in Time to Another

 

Who Could not Love You ?

Who Could not Love the Idea and Inspirational Ideal of You ?

Who Could not Love the Healing Power

Of what You

Of what We the People

Can, Do and Will Represent, Live Forward and Embody ?

 

Respectfully,

Leah Sellers