Path
"Path," a comparative of two ways of thinking, acting, and living, poem 019 in a series of 365 poems by Diana Ludwick written in 2026.
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speech: "Birth of a New Age," 1956.
They don't belong / No I in team
Closed doors / Open hearts
Not in my backyard / Welcome in
I don't care / How are you?
Stand your ground / Here, rest your feet
Scare starve segregate / Calm feed gather
Hate as policy / Love as calling
Torch-lit riots / Candlelight vigils
Fear of those others / Hope for us all
One way sows annihilation;
another nourishes mutualism.
Which path beckons —
Me or We?
