^^President Sweet Honey in the Rock! Alice Walker imagining, reminiscing, loving friends & the natural world, resisting violence and racism, insisting on love. 1984
P106
Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.
P23
You would choose
not to come back again,
you say.
Except perhaps
as rock or tree.
But listen, love. Though human,
that is what you are
already
to this student, absorbed.
Human tree and rock already,
to me.