and the smell of being….
why are we not awake?
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we are the children
we are the names and the facesof the spirits that roam the night.we are the leaves that fellwith autumnal passion…we crumbled back into the dirt,and returned to our mother.we are the oaks cutto build the house.we are the saws, the hammers,and the nails.we are the water,and we are the well.we are the cup and the…
God died last night
they’ll find the bodyin a week or two.funeral arrangementsin the back of the paper…no viewing… cremationis all that could be afforded….and the world rushes onin an angry ball of fury;while children die,unnoticed and unnamed.and the homeless and the hungryare stacked in the ditches…unholy sacrifices toHis memory….leaving the unclaimed ashesto blow in the infidel wind!
the middle class is gone!
the american dream distorted,dissolving into nightmarish need!milk and honey are nowblack market items only.shut down the schools,lay off the teachers.close libraries, ban books…firemen stand and watcha house, a life burn down…because the fee was not paid.emergency rooms full of peoplewho have no insurance, …others wait in long linesat the clinics…people who used to owntheir own…
do wild animals run from us
emanating from our pores?is the rage they see in our eyesnamed, spoken or unspoken,or directed inward?and the fear itself thunders,as if in warning!is that why we run from each other?from ourselves?what are we running to?
the only idols
out of our fears andinsecurities…God has many faces,many voices, many forms.the only limits we impose.holiness is diversity,human beings clutch at shadows.light becomes lighteven on the darkest night.and the darkness itselfholds secrets.lay down your bodies,and walk with the wind.every moment a death,and a beginning.out of formlessthe form becomes.each wave is different,all a part of the sea!
when we buy clothes made in sweatshop conditions
cheaper, we are in fact supporting human rights abuse.when we buy oil from Arab countries that oppress andabuse their own people, and regulate women to ‘second-class slavery’, we are a part of that oppression.when we throw away or waste food while childrenaround the world are starving, we become the causeof that hunger.when we drive big…