Hope’s Engine
White-hot coals of anger drop upon the fabric of your soul!
Enfold them and hold them,
they shall burn to a black cinder
the very warp and weft of your heart.
Carry them quickly to your firebox of rationality.
Open all the vents wide to the dark storm winds
of indifference and injustice.
Transform those battering gusts to an oxygenating draft;
fire the glowing coals to incandescent flame.
Vaporize the tears of hurt, pain, and grief to superheated steam.
Drive the pistons of compassion, again and again,
through the cylinders of empathy.
Turn the mighty wheels of action to build:
Shelters, meals, kindness,
Consequence,
Hope.
© David W. Oliver 12/28/2010
poemsbydrdave.blogspot.com
A reflection on the founding of the Irving, Texas–based organization MADD in 1980 by Candice Lightner after her 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Clarence Busch, a 46-year-old cannery worker.
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