Listen up, America!
We have raised our voices
and have been heard.
“Sometime in the future”
has become “Now!”
and We the People
stand newly united
in purpose and promise.
One among us has dared to say,
“Yes, we can,”
words echoing and re-echoing
across the land,
urging all of us
to reclaim our dreams
and make our country whole.
Listen up, America!
“We the People”
which from the beginning
defined our nation,
finally defines all of us.
A new reality lifts our heads high,
telling the world
its “City on the Hill”
has regenerated itself
as a true democracy –
one in which differences can be
strengths
and any challenge can be met.
Listen up, America!
He did not say “Yes, I can!”
He said, “Yes, we can!”
We the People
are being told – and shown –
by one among us
that government is us,
that what we make of ourselves
can be gift to our country and one
another.
We are responsible for who we are
and what we become.
Ours is a free world, we a free people.
But freedom is never free,
nor is democracy.
Now is the time, he says,
to pay the price;
to become –
for one another and all the world –
the People who we say we are.
Listen up, America!
