The Shape of Yes
April 13, 1994
Catch the light
in a child's Yes;
touch the early
tone of agree.
The shape of Yes
is the voice of grace,
the resonance
of unity.
Its beauty breathes
along our lives,
smelling of morning,
leaving our hands
clean in the act
of diplomacy.
It moves in the soft
affirming hour -
a swathe of sounds,
a long stealth
of grace to weave
the winter's green
(the stems of hope)
through all this punctuating
white
to fashion a poem
of tongue and wing,
of poise and power.
Choose Yes.
For Yes is the cry
of the heart and not
the late consent
of submissiveness.
But what's this?
Without hurt
our colors run
together to bless,
together to win.
Their sweet release
is the light of assent,
is a mornning force....
Listen again.
The shape of Yes
is the foresmile of peace.