Well, if yesterday was inspiring, today was incredible. I have to admit that it is heart-warming and encouraging to see even the difficult students being swept up into enthusiasm and cheers while watching an inauguration and a speech.
Just a desire to riff on the word--inauguration. An augury is a forecasting, a looking toward what the future may bring. (We'll skip the bird entrails part.) So what President Obama is doing, by being "inaugurated," is bringing us forward, predicting and prognosticating, what our future may hold.
So, on this occasion, a quick poem.
TEARS
Glances
Through the crowd
Emotion sweeps through and over.
Barriers crash like a sonic boom
Words ring out,
Ring true.
The fabric of what has been
Full of countless, painful tears
Now rent completely.
In its place,
In the hopeful eyes of multitudes,
Tears of joy.
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