Do not despise
If you wish to rise.

There is a place
Where you belong
Where you are not wrong
To love.

Though the journey is long
And the shades of night
Are dark.

You will come to where the light is.
You then will not wish to fight
Or be right.

You will nod your head
More often
In understanding.

You will smile
As you walk each day
Seeing the way that leads
Not to a victory that crushes but
to a peace that has found
A better way

You will wait for victory
And it will be yours.
Because you saw that

The battle was
not yours to win.

We were born on
this battlefield
During a war
that started long ago.

We don’t own this war.
Yet we must stand in it
Only to be rescued
When we can take no more.

Try not to hate
And you will be lifted
You will be gifted
By the truth
that Makes you free.