I Am... (I Am Not...)

i am the unions. miners, teachers, steel workers, nurses, factory workers, standing strong and united, demanding human decency, fair wages and benefits. i am not communism. i am the common man and woman, saying prayers with their hands as they work; driven by the faith in family, teaching respect, gentleness, and firm convictions to their children. i am not the elite. i am the bruised, scarred human being. i have fallen time and again. i have built great dreams that time has destroyed. but i know what i believe, and who i am. i am not religious. i am the multi-colored neighborhood. different faiths, different languages, the same needs and desires. i am open conversation and acceptance. i am not prejudice. i am the day of revolution. i am oppression cast off, ignorance exposed; i am equality, dignity, and basic human rights. i am not 'i, me, mine'. i am the human condition... evolving, changing, molded by fire, i am the river that finds it's way home... i am not the end of time!