This tanka was published in Skylark, a Tanka Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2017:

The following tanka is dedicated to the courageous people who participated in the “Moral Mondays” in my home state of North Carolina. They risked arrest for gathering at the State Legislature to protest unfair and discriminatory legislation being passed. These protests were non-violent and led by the Reverend William J. Barber.

Moral Monday –
arm and arm linked
you choose to step
into the darkness
to find the light