A Week To Remember

It was the best of times. 

Joy was rampant, overwhelming

The prophets of disaster.

Being Gay was OK,

Visiting a dying lover,

To whom you are betrothed,

Is no longer Mississippi’s decision,

It is now your right.

Family and dear friends of nine murdered

Congregants of the AME church

Who forgave the terrorist killer

Reached a place I will never enter.

Yes, there are many who still view

The Confederate Flag as a tribute to past glory.

Their attribution of the Civil War to state rights

Ignores slavery as the primary right that rebellion defended.

This week you and I celebrated the emphatic

Supreme Court decision upholding government

Assistance to otherwise deprived

Recipients of health care insurance.

Here again the forces of darkness

Screamed foul, indifferent to the millions

Who would surely suffer more, and die sooner,

Without the Affordable Care Act

If next weeks news refocuses us in other directions

We will have this week’s resounding triumphs,

And the possibilities they project a future

That now includes wiser and more humane counsel.