Pellegrini Della Speranza
written by: Charlie Bottle
Someday, in the future
we will wish we had,
we could have,
we had done,
we loved,
we cared
we protected,
we planted,
we saved,
we prayed,
we nourished,
all who walked this earth
beyond believed boundaries
that divided ourselves
with religion, greed, selfishness,
by demagogues, autocrats, kakistocrats,
technocrats, and theocrats,
all selling us their dreams,
all gaming, damning not us,
but, us as others,
the others, beyond our boundaries,
beyond walls, homes,
by social castes, creeds, and melanin,
stratified in imaginary divisions,
because, our divisions
energized them, gave them power,
control, to steal our liberty,
as souls created for the liberty to love,
love unconditionally and share freely
with one another.
We the pilgrims of Hope
United by the Love of God,
that we were given in Love
in this existence, because
we were sent as sojourners
to learn to love in a world
hostile, and yet beautiful,
deadly, yet nurturing.
To learn to live in all circumstances,
on dark nights of the souls,
on bright days of the Epiphany,
that arrived when fleeing,
when sleeping, in peace and war,
that, while waves washed over breakers,
and tossed boats in the harbor,
we were, and are always assuredly loved,
and to take that love and share
our bread, our labor, our love,
not out of Fear, but out of hope,
out of a common faith,
that the one who created the universe,
created us to love each other,
and in loving each other,
we would love the one who created us.
Someday, we will set aside regrets
We will forgive our pasts
our ancestors,
and those whose intransigencies
brought us to this moment
to where to love is not an option,
but a necessity borne out of hope,
a desire to love,
to work for the common good
because we love,
we care,
we protect,
we plant,
we save,
we pray,
we nourish,
all who walk this earth,
and breathe the same air
under the same sun.
- Pellegrini Della Speranza - August 14, 2025
- The Verse Smith - April 17, 2025
- Atom Shanti - December 31, 2024
