This one is a little more hopeful.
"If starlight be, if starlight be, how visible
and electromagnetic your form.
And all the parts of the unseen we take for granted,
decisions on Capitol Hill spoken into law without say
of anyone other than, say, an elected official, say,
oh, radiation of you lost behind another broken system,
say we made it someone's job to speak for us and now
and now what light bares in us.
If starlight be waves in carry through space,
say speed of light in a vacuum, how a country moves
with the voices of its people on its back, how we carried
by misdeeds in a justice system that sees color and distastes
it, sees the poor under its gavel and wields,
despite blindfold long removed moons ago,
scales in twist in distort.
If starlight be how you produce, charged particle,
in acceleration, wave of you brings energy and momentum
to give from a source to matter you interact with.
How generous a source found in lungs, brain, and aortic sac.
Say what makes you human makes you powerful.
Let all who treat you inhumane feel your energy in pulse.
If starlight be and you single photon, rest in mass of zero,
rest in the infinite design of a mouth
open before all the numbers of the universe tumble out
and become yours for the taking, linger brief here,
on the verge.
Do not let roles and officials wipe your name.
Use your trachea, your tongue to speak,
lest you begin to forget."
Thank you.