This Poem Is For All Those Who Hunger And Thirst For Truth

This poem is for all those who hunger and thirst for truth:
who have lived in the dungeons, through the tortures, the deprivations
cast by the shadows of darkness that would hide the truth:
the fear mongers, the wasters, the haters, the exploiters, the
ravagers, those who would destroy the assemblage of
name and country, of heritage in the flesh-suit of
the one and only Humanity:  I am and together
we are~~

these wages of human bone, marrow and sinew,
unjustly imprisoned for
daring to ask for and demand that which is rightly
every human being's right:  to exist with the right
to be 'free' from any cage or box inscribed with
another's fear of everyman's right to fly.

Authenticity demands
voices such as Cardinal Mindszenty, Martin Luther King,
Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and thousands upon tens of thousands
voices forever stilled by acts of genocide, perpetrated with only
one thought in mind:  keeping freedom outside the realm of JUSTICE
NOW!

Abu Ghraib, we hear your plaintive poems, your words burn in the pyres
of the grand inquisitors, your sentences without trial speak not of who
you are but of what you are denied.

Justice for all mankind.  Here. Now.