Only on This Day
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “Why?”:
Why did we ever allow this to happen?
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “What?”:
What was the purpose that was served by our misguided action?
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “Where?”:
Where did it all begin and how will what has started end?
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “Who?”:
Who will bring us forth from the depths of despair into the light?
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “When?”:
When will all the hate and divisiveness end?
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “How?”
How can we, as a people, come together and proceed?
Only on this day are we allowed to ask “Which?”:
Which of us will be the one to take the lead?
Only on this day…but wait…it is not just this day –
Today is this day, as is tomorrow, and the next.
And we hold the answers to each of the questions,
Though we may or may not know all the answers.
We are the ones that must choose to respond.
For that is who we are and what we will become,
Not only on this day but every day.
And though we are allowed to ask, “Only on this day…”
It is only together, united as one, that we can succeed.
