The Trip from Here

By John Blase | January 13, 2015 |

If I oust you out of the driver’s seat

so you have to sit in the back of the bus

and now I get to drive then yes,

something has changed but the

saner question is are we better off?

An alien looking in might think

there’s just been an exchange of eyes,

and they might be right.

What if we all got off the bus and

found a new vehicle to take us where we

want to go, something like our own

sturdy feet whereby we could walk or skip

or run side by side and do our happy work?

This doesn’t mean we’d always be

in step or sync or anything yokey like that

but rather that the trip from here

might be more just. Just think about it.

It may be a hairbrained idea.

Patricia Hunter on January 13, 2015 at 2:11 pm

That preaches, John. Thank you.

mike graves on January 13, 2015 at 4:12 pm

Ive wondered how we could ever possibly discuss racism rationally,
John,youre pretty deep for an East Texas boy.

pastordt on January 13, 2015 at 5:45 pm

‘an exchange of eyes’ – and then exchanging the dang bus for our own feet. Yeah, that will definitely preach. Even if it is a harebrained idea.

Rachel on January 13, 2015 at 5:45 pm

Thoughtful and beautifully stated for such a complex problem we’ve been chasing for so long.