When morning comes alight

& inner city sunshine falls right

here on the house on the hill –

Isn’t this a familiar place

where people feeling free

to experience

a new start on life –

or is this a place

where derelicts wander?

Is the house on the hill

a building surrounded by

communities vibrant –

where people collaborate & working through their problems –

or is this a place where shadow people

peeping out of windows?

Is the house on the hill in a part of the town

where you go on dancing every night of the week –

or is it in a part of the town

where shadow people trudging sidewalks

carrying bedrolls?

Is this a place where proud painted houses –

where every lot surrounding this lot a proud happy family –

or is this the house on the hill that’s a stand alone house

where kids play in overgrown weeds?

Is the house on the hill a home where families grow up –

where families nourish an understanding of the cultural past –

a cultural past from which community leaders emerge?

Is the house on a hill a breeding ground

for a new generation of seed people –

or is it home to shadowy people

who hide from society day & night?

& after all these years

we still observe

miles & miles of blight & community destructions

& arrays of slumlords & all these years

we observe

decay of the city into its abandoned past –

& in the house on the hill –

is it visible for all to see –

is it a home where you can grow up –

where families can thrive –

where they are free to express their thoughts words sounds all day & all night long?

Is it a place where you can walk out & find neighborhood

& find everything sustains you?

& when you return home to the house on the hill

will it be your proud house –

when you return

to your home on the hill

will the lights be on & sights & smells & sounds inviting –

& when I come home to visit you

in the house on the hill

sitting on the porch in the moonlight

will we have endless discussions about

revitalizing our community?

Yes, we will listen to the latest in our home-grown sounds

& maybe make some music together –

I will have endless discussions with you & your family about

the condition of the people of this planet –

this is what I dream about when I walk the path

toward the house on the hill –

& what about all the unexpected realizations

that happen in the house on the hill?

It’s all about people who put their interest in planet first –

isn’t the unexpected realizations in the house on the hill about

here we are with community & all the boundaries fall away

& there’s nothing but the house on the hill standing on the planet?

Standing on the soil where our community is growing together

looking out at the universe realizing

we must be some rather

unique people living in the house on the hill –

we must be some

high energized lifestyle reinventing

the house on the hill so why not

join us the door is open the lights are on let’s

get together celebrate new start on life right here

in the house on the hill –