West Point — The U.S. Military Academy | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

About face

Maybe the day
To cast aside and blow wide
Pride that will not last,
Past prejudice and the ideas
You choose
To use in having your way
Lay waiting to tear loose,
Fuse with courage and stay
Strong as long
As night at distant poles.
Goals may stay as bright
As light, but the roles
Ways play
Turn sour, and all those
Opposing change will learn
To spurn loyalty to forces
Gone wrong,
As all who own to no mistakes
Forsake the steps to scale the walls
Enthralling their stiff-necked makers.

Tyrone Graham for Poetry in Form.