#664 On Your People

Maya Angelou said:
Bring your people with you. 

Think of the people who are no longer with you
   The people who loved you
   The people who supported you
   The people who were kind to you
Carry the spirit of those people on your shoulders

And when you walk into that room
Know that the people you bring with you 
Are your sword and your shield and your armour 
Let the memory of their kindness and their love 
Be the cooling shade amidst the scorching sun of blistering hostility
Be the warm companion amidst the withering spite of cruel indifference 

Be they a throng or the several few
What counts the most is how they loved
The one and only You they knew.