That Would Be Something! Poem by Frank Bana

It would be great and I’d love to see it
Once in this short lifetime
I’d glue onto the cable news
Lie on the sofa and kick off my shoes
Spread some flowers on the street
Talk to strangers on the train
And carry a broad grin and peace sign again

The tide is up for America to change
For change of change itself to begin
A differential calculus wherein
Perceptions are unchained from their station
Running like kids around the place
In the pale and unbelieving face
Of a dazed, unraveled nation.

It would be something, quite a joyful ride
For a Black-, a KENYAN-American
To preside
Let all the doves come home to nest
The chickens roost in peace. We’d fly
Mandela to the Inauguration, be
More peaceful with the world outside
The tide
Moves with us when we swim a wider sea.