Readings

Responsive Reading (adapted from a poem by Mzwakhe Mbuli)

MINISTER: Now is the time,
MEN: To climb up the mountain and reason against habit,
ALL: Now is the time.

MINISTER: Now is the time,
WOMEN: To renew the barren soil of nature, ruined by the winds of
tyranny.
ALL: Now is the time.

MINISTER: Now is the time,
MEN: To commence the litany of hope,
ALL: Now is the time.

MINISTER: Now is the time,
WOMEN: To give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come.
ALL: Now is the time.

MINISTER: Now is the time,
MEN: Give them to me while my heart breaks.
ALL: Now is the time.

MINISTER: Now is the time,
WOMEN: Give them today, while my heart yearns for jubilee.
ALL: Now is the time.

-- submitted by the Rev. Louis V. Schwebius, Consulting Minister, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Central Nassau, NY and Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bellport, NY.

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