become what you need to be…. human!
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it is time to throw the damned tea into the harbor again!
every word we speak, every action we do…either creates distance between human beings,or creates a connection!distance equals death,connection equals life!i am sick and tired of the bullshit that says:we are right and they are wrong,we are good and they are evil.our religion is right, and theirs is wrong.we’re going to heaven, they’re going to hell…a…
mountain…
tree,newborn child,dying old man,fire in a clearing,moonlight reflected through a window….the prisoner,a vagrant man,the immigrant crossing the border….the young woman giving birth,starlight on wet grasses,the prisoner walkingto his own execution….an agnostic,a heretic,and a pilgrim….a child of god,a child of darkness….which am i?if not all!
old people in homes,
memories erased!
if there were no darkness,
if there were no waves,the moon would be powerless.if there were no bullets,dead bodies would rise.if there were no dreams,we could not face reality!if there were no hunger,we would not have a reason.if there were no suffering,we could not find freedom!if there were no lovers,we would not have children.if there were no children,we’d have no…
if you must speak,
speak without claiming identity,without shouting, ‘self’!speak without grasping,clawing, and holding.keep your judgements to yourself!i dont need to know the color of your god,or what war you say he was born during.i am more refugee than disciple,i will not follow!speak not of streets of goldwhere angels play harps!let us speak of these streets…hard and raw, struggling…
do we sleep in the stillness,
the day the war on terrorbecomes the war on poverty.the day different colors means rainbows,when fists are retired, and ears are opened.the day when the distance to godbecomes two hands open in dialogue.the day we see ourselves naked,and are not ashamed!