America Awakening - Casting Off Our Cloak of Shame

Tomorrow I will walk through foreign lands without shame.

We will share what different lands and cultures have given us.

They will, perhaps slowly at first, begin again to trust.

To my culture, my country, my people, my language, my look.

That has always greeted me in far off lands.

Carrying the pride we used to feel when our world was fresh,

And I will trust that wherever I go, I will be well met - tomorrow.

Please don't silence me tonight with predictable analyses of doom.

Tonight I am deep within the experience of rebirth and wonder

That the world has felt toward us, in our decade of despicable atrocity.

 Please don't challenge my optimism with socio-politico, religious, genderist cultural complaints tonight.

For I want to feel America's new hope that is shining forth so bravely.

To roll in the clover of a new spring day of clear beginnings.

Listen! It may be real. It may be really happening.

To come out from under rocks and emotional foxholes

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