Perhaps

Today it’s my favorite word.
So much possibility is opened up
When you speak the word aloud

Perhaps you are magic
Perhaps it will work
Perhaps we will win

Perhaps the grieving will be easy today
Perhaps the change will spread
Perhaps they will listen
Perhaps they will hear
Perhaps we will move forward together

Perhaps they won’t die
Perhaps the suffering will end
Perhaps the hungry will be fed

Perhaps the hated will die
Perhaps the prisons will empty
Those wrongly and unjustly detained
Allowed to return to what is theirs

Perhaps our communities will tighten together
Perhaps we will finally heal
Springing new growth
Among the destruction
Those with poor intentions
Ended up wreaking in havoc all over our souls

Perhaps we will throw the patriarchy out the window
Perhaps we will tear the systems all down
Perhaps we will finally break free