The following poem was written by all attendants in the event and edited by Arji Manuelpillai, the host and lead facilitator for the Unconference:
Some Days Are Special Days
Today was a day for praise and love, joy and rest
to share and learn, grow and connect.
Today was a day to let the words flow free
A day to find some time to listen.
Today was for helping London
find a way to heal, to change.
For realising we are not alone,
Together our strength is staggering.
Today was a day for transformation
through conversation.
Old ways of seeing new approaches,
new ways of growing, of implementing
Defining the goal, chasing the goal,
reaching for the goal, rebuilding the goal.
Today was a day for remembering
It’s ok to play, work isn’t always work.
I met an old boyfriend today,
hadn’t seen him in ages, he looked so good.
Today was for being heard, thinking and feeling,
praising, inspiring, expressing our ideas
listening, noticing, digesting, caring
expanding, inspiring and thinking,
did I mention thinking?
critical thinking, analytical thinking,
thinking about how I love
the way you move from company to company
but we basically do the same thing.
We fight the good fight.
Today was there to help us remember
the why before committing to the how.
It was a day for cigs and booze
For spilling tea on a random man.
A day for dreaming and flying
For dreaming of flying, for flying a dream
That we can, some day,
Bun down Babylon.
Today was inspiring and moving
strange and weird
And u sat on my brand new glasses
But that was ok.
Because today was not about trying to be too much,
But just being a being that knows.
If we trust in our imagination
If we believe in our shared power
We can and we will build a city
Full of possibilities.
A city where creativity
paves a healthier London of the future.
Today was just a day
It’s tomorrow where the change begins.
