El Hombre

by William Carlos Williams

It’s a strange courage
you give me ancient star:

Shine alone in the sunrise
toward which you lend no part!

my thoughts exactly

"You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
a time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it
and now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built
and the only way it's going to be built is with extreme methods
and I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are
as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth."

- El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz