Queen

For a week
I saw the possibility
Of the world
coming together
Not with signs
and shouting
Not out of anger
or discontent
Not because things
were going badly
Or that we disagreed.
We came together
With respect
With love
With curiosity
With grace
And with holy presence.
But it was more
Than that.
We came together
Because we needed
To feel each other close
All of us –
To feel the weight
Of silence
To weep
For the history
Threaded through
One woman
(Only one)
Who quietly
Without fanfare
Lived in service.
And now perhaps,
We Understand
That we too
Might change
The world
In quiet service.