Molly
By Leigh Saavedra
02 February, 2007
Countercurrents.orgWe wish you could have stayed
to see the valid close,
his smug smile gone,
drowned in full disgrace.We wish you could have stayed
to see how sorrow grows,
our love for you
wet upon our faces.Thank you, Muse and Avatar.
Without your sharp and lilting laugh
We would have found the road longer,
the wind colder,
the fight too somber..
But with you the path was home to our feet,
wrapping around them like faith,
lifting us upward,
soaring,
through a wind that told us fight
and laughter fit in the same hand.Like Moses, you led us here, so close,
to stay and watch us from afar,
but we're almost there, Molly,
a bit heavier with your wisdom,
the strength of your vision in our hearts,
and strangely so, a bit more swift of foot.Thank you, Molly Ivins,
for the laughter and the passion.
We're almost there,
almost there,
just one voice short..
Oh how we wish you could have stayed.
Leigh Saavedra, often writing under "Lisa Walsh
Thomas" is a veteran activist, having fully
re-enlisted immediately after Election 2000. While
writing in several genres over the years, she has
focussed on political papers and poems in these
difficult recent years. She appreciates comments at
[email protected].
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