the world has ever seen.
you can line the walls
with fine jewels,
and carpet the floors.
you can adorn it
with beautiful pictures,
and have windows that face
the morning sun.
you can have doors
that open both ways.
still…
this box cannot hold
the sky, the wind, or the rain!
so it is with political systems.
no system can define freedom.
no system can define justice.
no system can define equality.
only the human heart,
grounded in love,
can do this!
withstood the winter storms.bare bent limbs reaching,against odds to bud,holding the skyin a lovers embrace.home to the sparrow,the worm, and the squirrel…shade to the weary,a constant guide to the lost.without name, without need,rooted deep in the earth…that gnarled old tree…is me!
a failure to communicatedriven by fear,and is always on sale!
we’ve accomplished, not even whatwe’ve dreamed…we are what we’ve lived in each other!the moment shared, the small kindness,the brush of affection, the hours worked for,the hand extended, the tears and the laughter…nothing more, and nothing less!
the piano bench empty,dust gathers on the keys.the grass damp with dew,the wind still, and quiet.the bookshelf sagswith books long ignored.people walk by without talking,darkness opens its mouth… swallows.the lamp forlorn and chilledwaits without hope for a bulb.nothing to say that can say,words fall like leaves to the ground.the room empty haunted by form,curls up…
shape the world by militaryforce for our own economicgain…… WE JUST DO NOT!
in a God that you’re afraid of?that judges harshly, prefersone group of people over another?that you have to pretend for?that you have to deny your humanity for?that you have to hide from?tell me why!my God smells like rain,thunders, with flashes of lightning.whispers like the windblowing through the leaves.runs like the river over the cliff.caws with…
