It was a close call

January 20 21

Kicking and screaming America was lead

To a peace of sorts.

We wrestled with dark forces

The fake, the false, the mildly untrue

On any given day who knew

if they were lies

When friends with letters after their name and good hearts

Proclaimed there was a plot.

Sometimes what is clear to me is not to you

This being human

Brings us to our knees

And so it should

King George the sixth

To a Britain waning in battle, said:

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.

And he replied:

“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.  That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”

I pray today for me and you

That you will find that hand

That You will know what’s true

That courage will rise up

At the fork in the road.

And you may even look back and say

That was a close call.