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We this people on a small and lonely planet	A
Traveling through casual space	B
Past aloof stars across the way of indifferent suns	C
To a destination where all signs tell us	D
It is possible and imperative that we learn	E
A brave and startling truth	F
	-
And when we come to it	G
To the day of peacemaking	H
When we release our fingers	I
From fists of hostility	J
And allow the pure air to cool our palms	K
	-
When we come to it	G
When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate	L
And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean	M
When battlefields and coliseum	N
No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters	I
Up with the bruised and bloody grass	O
To lie in identical plots in foreign soil	P
	-
When the rapacious storming of the churches	Q
The screaming racket in the temples have ceased	R
When the pennants are waving gaily	J
When the banners of the world tremble	S
Stoutly in the good clean breeze	T
	-
When we come to it	G
When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders	I
And children dress their dolls in flags of truce	U
When land mines of death have been removed	V
And the aged can walk into evenings of peace	W
When religious ritual is not perfumed	X
By the incense of burning flesh	Y
And childhood dreams are not kicked awake	Z
By nightmares of abuse	U
	-
When we come to it	G
Then we will confess that not the Pyramids	A2
With their stones set in mysterious perfection	B2
Nor the Gardens of Babylon	C2
Hanging as eternal beauty	J
In our collective memory	J
Not the Grand Canyon	B2
Kindled into delicious color	D2
By Western sunsets	E2
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Nor the Danube flowing its blue soul into Europe	F2
Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji	J
Stretching to the Rising Sun	B2
Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who without favor	D2
Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores	G2
These are not the only wonders of the world	H2
	-
When we come to it	G
We this people on this minuscule and kithless globe	I2
Who reach daily for the bomb the blade and the dagger	D2
Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace	W
We this people on this mote of matter	D2
In whose mouths abide cankerous words	J2
Which challenge our very existence	K2
Yet out of those same mouths	L2
Come songs of such exquisite sweetness	D
That the heart falters in its labor	D2
And the body is quieted into awe	M2
	-
We this people on this small and drifting planet	A
Whose hands can strike with such abandon	B2
That in a twinkling life is sapped from the living	H
Yet those same hands can touch with such healing irresistible tenderness	D
That the haughty neck is happy to bow	N2
And the proud back is glad to bend	O2
Out of such chaos of such contradiction	B2
We learn that we are neither devils nor divines	D
	-
When we come to it	G
We this people on this wayward floating body	J
Created on this earth of this earth	P2
Have the power to fashion for this earth	P2
A climate where every man and every woman	B2
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety	J
Without crippling fear	Q2
	-
When we come to it	G
We must confess that we are the possible	S
We are the miraculous the true wonder of this world	H2
That is when and only when	R2
We come to it	G

Maya Angelou

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