Inspired by Balancing Act by Richard Boyer
Melissa VanArsdale
Track to Justice
A young woman walks the tracks. Balancing between justice and injustice. She’s caught off guard when there’s a sudden switch in the line that divides the track into two. Almost stumbling, she catches herself, but ends up on the track of injustice. A rusted track of corruption and decay. A track that leads to a dark past. Her rights are stripped. She continues down the path. Remembering King’s words “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” She embraces this thought. Soon she couples with other women facing the same plight when they bump into one another, Eventually becoming a locomotive force. The women advance and sound off warnings as they look for the switch that connects the track to lead them back to the track of justice. A parallel track of equality.
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