We would do well to meet our shadow <br />The side we give so little publicity, <br />The side from which the media run like dogs <br />Yet revel in like wolves tearing at a carcass. <br /> <br />We would do well to own our darkness <br />A Black, An Indian, A Jew, A Criminal, A King, A Messiah <br />For others to use to focus as targets for our rage <br />If we could only meet our darkness and have help to embrace it <br />There might be basis for hope of something <br />That was once called progress.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/six-shadows-and-hope/
