Recognizing life and death
Should be everyone’s pledge
Collectively both past and present
Meant for innovative systems and basic serenity
Presently living quietly
Currently dying out loud
Fruitless elders lead
Murdered offspring leave
Evolving establishment essential
Just as progressives realize their mortality
Riots recognized through ritual while development emerges
Atmosphere full of pong and perfume: perfection
Let us memorialize and hope
Together see the dark and the light
Always value and expand
Live with life and death
© 2011 by Bryan Epps
COIN: Community of Organic Intellectuals in Newark 