And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.