Thursday, January 23, 2025

Leonard Peltier is Free

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN JUSTICE


Leonard Peltier is Free

 

Of all the things Joe Biden did

In the final moments of his presidency

After fifty years of imprisonment

He set Leonard Peltier free

 

By this singularly important act

An act of executive clemency

By granting one man his freedom

He set a cause and a movement free

 

The FBI will raise a cry

But justice has been done

A long time late and bittersweet

But this battle has been won

 

Remember him at Wounded Knee

Remember what he sacrificed

For being a man of principle

He was chosen to pay the price

 

Like Geronimo before him

Like Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

A spirit guide turned warrior

A hero and a man in full

 

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