Passive Voice: A Critique of the University Collaborative Letter

Before you delve into this story, to give you context, Azusa Pacific University, Life Pacific College, and Point Loma Nazarene University (my alma mater and employer) wrote a collaborative letter in response to the Trump Administration's immigration ban.

You can view the letter here.

I highly suggest reading it before reading my story.

So, away we go...

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Be Fruitful

I knew I loved you

when we were asked to play god

With the power that was granted to me

I scourged the earth of its ore

and manipulated metals

to form towers that ruptured the golden streets above

like a tree's roots sabotaging concrete

And I thought no language barrier would confound,

only marvel and awe would persist in our domain

I put my feet up and admired my skyline

so I was too busy to see that you went to eye-level

You went in and called this place “creation,”

no possession implied

You sprouted street lights on every road and walkway

and whispered to the sand

to craft glass bulbs and to entwine metallic gossamer

and you secured them in all the right places

so no one would need to look over a shoulder

You lightened the burden of the passerby

(a side-effect of my designs)

so the seas that you tidied and swept

could provide mystery and discovery

The wind carried you to me on my perch so you could say,

“Your towers cast shadows, but now

light gives company”