Minus the Trappings We Never Had

There will, alas
be no finery,
let us acknowledge that
together and get
beyond that oppressive dream,
the slave master.

On the roadside
we walk
forward
without expectation
and a sense of
possibility
wise enough not to
look it
in the face

You say this is
the thinking of
poverty,
and what can I show
to disprove it?

We have another step in us
that's all we
know