I received a poem from a friend in my inbox – an uplifting reminder about our hopes for the future at a time when many of us are despairing. It dreams of a race-less future generation, anchored on the words of Jimi Hendrix: “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Walk Together
by Akwasi Aidoo
Together they’ll walk
side by side
swinging arms in Arecaceae grace.
Race-less … They’ll walk
together gentle, silent, firm
uphill to the vaults
where ancient mysteries hold
memories reposed, exposed
of our triumphs.
And there is nothing
more to it than that.
They’ll walk
together, palm in palm, unpegged
by what long strewed shared dreams,
to a world that belongs
to all who live in it.