democracy

My friend Michael Wolfe is a Muslim poet, filmmaker, and essayist. He wrote this amazing poem and sent it to me on March 20th, just one day after Egyptian voters capped this spring's democratic revolution in Egypt by approving a new Egyptian constitution by an overwhelming 78%. Michael gave me permission to publish the poem here.

This morning I find myself glued to the radio listening to ongoing coverage of what appears to be a powerful democratic revolution being waged by hundreds of thousands of unarmed protesters on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, and other major cities.