I’m Pickin’ up Good Vibrations (an August 17th Recap)

September marks ATXAHH’s 5th anniversary.  Stay tuned to our FaceBook and Twitter feeds for lots of flashbacks to past giveaways as we reminisce. We’ll also feature a few questions we’re often asked (so if you have a burning question, contact us and we’ll showcase it next month!). If you’re looking for ways to help between now and September 21st, check out our Get Involved page. But before we go…

This month we received a gift from one of the gentlemen in line, Mr. Leonardo daVinci E. (No doubt that’s his name. He showed a volunteer valid identification as proof.). After a pleasant conversation with a volunteer about the concept of Humanism, he was inspired to write a poem for us so he sat on the curb with pen and paper in hand and did just that. He gave us permission to share it with our supporters.

by Leonardo daVinci E.

You are mistaken about America

What she is meant to be

And the true meaning of what it is to be free

Using Life & Liberty to choose for oneself

Over imagined morality

Or even choose what some others merely imagine as immorality

As one desire to choose

As long as it’s kept to oneself

In ways that others lives are not abused

By your imagined acts of morality, immorality

Or other subjective views

For that’s what it really means to be free

Rationally

A multi-cultural entity only American can be

And the lives lost for this freedom was meant

To sustain America’s most precious and fundamental intent

That all Americans have one moral thing in common

The one moral thing each one of them wants

And as Americans, each one can summon

The one theme embraced by them all

One theme which has the world enthralled

One theme which sets the world on fire

One theme which inspires the lowest and highest

One theme which attracts the eagle’s eye 

One theme by which all our flags fly

To be able to choose for oneself

What’s imagined to be morality

Or even choose what some other people merely imagine is immorality

As one desires to choose

As long as it’s kept to oneself

In ways where no other lives are abused

By your acts of what’s merely imagined to be morality

Or by your acts of what’s merely imagined to be immorality

Or other subjective views

Upon which you insist

Toward life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

And where every American might agree and confess

That violation of someone’s human rights

Is the only real immorality within logic’s sights