Community

 Poems from Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Chicago History Museum

- From Mya

Community is where people live
The friends that lift you up day after day
The love, the care of your friends and family
These are your community

- From Arthur

A place of comfort and connection 

Of cringing and complexity

Busy and messy and beautiful

Diverse and united

Of belonging and becoming and believing

Where shared purpose and sacrifice creates safety

Where suffering creates strength

Where life becomes alive

Where we be known and know

Working together, stronger together, shining together

We are made to belong to one another

Community is destiny and sweetest reality

Community is home

- From Xiu

People we know

Places we go to

Sights we behold

Smells that fill our nose

The workers and first responders

The school, stores and hospitals

Kids playing, adults rushing by

The local bakery and its apple pie

The homeless in the corner

His bed that we just passed by

The creases that edge her eyes

Tobacco puffs and dinner from a new nights

Family, friends and familiar faces

Yesterday's wounds and hope for the future

Strangers becoming neighbors

The fragrance of Christ binding us together

- From Elliot