Tommy Douglas Lives Here
we, people, animals, flies
are here together
all sharing this planet
in relationship to one another
this depends on live and let live
world over and under, sky and rock
together we have voice
and we have eyes
the days of sun or snow
only a lifetime to see — to
test the day with our best plans
of how to raise children, care for
our kin, our past and future
character invested in present and past
that each day comes from our conscience
matters for the present and future
is not a license but a duty
how you or I achieved the good work
we belong to one another and we
look — not turning our faces away
after witnessing the body face down on
the city sidewalk not breathing
least of all they mattered, and we were
fortunate for having them in our lives
among the other kin who made
us — who we are
not our possessions or trophies no matter
how glossy they appear in magazines
we can thank whoever
look to the centre of all things
after losing someone precious
ourselves.
Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist minister, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1935 as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). He left federal politics to become Leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and then the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan. His government introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas
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