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Open Poetry #37

Reaching the Light

WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-04-03 10:28 AM

Angry, pushing and shoving,
and someone loses it:
what should I do
when this happens to me?
Return eye for eye,
curse for curse?

How easy it is to say “yes”!
Negative thoughts run swift
under the dark of the moon;
when shadows replace love
deep in the night...
and how much night there is here.

Who shall shine the light
when there is no light to see by?
Who will calm the angry one?
Who will embrace the stranger who staggers
under the weight of old fears?
Under the whip of oppression?

Who, if not me?
If I love only those who love me,
of what use is that
when no one remembers the victim?
When those who have
forget those who do not?

These are my feelings
expressed in mere words.
And how useless are words
if my life does not demonstrate
in how I live it.

StevenS
Senior Member

since 2005-09-21

Posts 945
L. A. (Lower Alabama)

1 posted 2006-04-03 11:33 AM

"These are my feelings
expressed in mere words.
And how useless are words
if my life does not demonstrate
in how I live it."

Amen WindWalker, talk is cheap!:-)

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