A Clear Choice

Americans will soon make a choice that will determine what kind of nation we want to be and what kind of people we really are. As I stated in the Category Section, I don’t do photo journalism very often but Truth, Honor, and Justice are on the ballot this time. A Populist/Fascist movement has made its hateful priorities clear. The results will define us for generations. Pray we make the right choice.

My mind is moving fast with recollections of the past.

Visions of the future somehow inform the angry present now.

A choice is being laid before us with outcomes vividly clear.

It’s the path we take with so much at stake and chaos oh so near.

A loss of faith in honor and truth, virtues from a dying day.

Tribal hatreds, once buried deep, point the way to slow decay.

If we could only just stop for a few moments and listen

To our better angels, our bitter hearts, and to each other.

A misguided faith redirected, brother to brother.

Reflect back from whence we have come with so much labor and love.

For life and liberty we strive, a solemn happiness implied.

To lose it now at such a cost, a righteous justice denied.

I call on you and all you hold dear, make the right choice

And we walk together, once again, on a path without fear.