Builder of Dreams

Sharing with you a poignant poem written by GK's Father.

WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE POOR IS GOOD FOR MY SOUL
By Antonio Meloto

It took me more than half a century
To embrace the most amazing reality
That love for the least of humanity
Is the ultimate measure of divinity.

The Master-builder told me from the start
I am not whole without the missing parts;
I cannot grow without a nurturing heart
For shivering Lazarus when I have so much.

The disconnected complete me,
The powerless make me strong.
My children will be sheltered
If I build the strays a home.

My descendants will be fed
If I make the hungry my own.
I won’t cross the finish alone,
I must bring the lame along.

Next year in January as I turn sixty
I ask this from friends and family;
Please do not abandon the poor,
Do not give up the dream of 2024:

Our children will not know poverty
Because it will be gone.
They will not understand corruption
Because there will be none.

Glad tidings to the poor is good for my family;
Freedom to the captives liberates my country;
The world bleeds when hate is fed to the hungry;
Heaven weeps when neglect is justified by hypocrisy.

Loving the poor is the key to a life of grace
And the best exit strategy to the next place.
To dreamers and repairers of the breached
Our reward on earth and in heaven is peace.