Educate our hearts before we speak our minds. For it is we who keep our shadow company, not our shadow ours. I try to catch the latest news, Lest otherwise, I become rolled over by it.
And I heard the hiss Of venomous spinners, “We must arm ourselves to the teeth... **** them all! Bomb them all!” Such comely pundits, coated in makeup and gloss, to read incendiary scripts from teleprompters, to incite and heap bricks of lead to tip their side of the scales of Justice.
Smoke speaks before fire, then soon after comes the flame, and then the wind of sentiment to fan the inferno.
But who will speak low and soft of love? Where are the healing eyes and empathetic ears of poets past who dipped their feather pens in compassion and caressed messages, as balms for our wounds?
Why do we taint the inherent scripture of mankind with rhetoric and reaction by those who seek to study the chaff and not the wheat of a communal harvest?
Our great leaders have gone softly into their nights… battle weary and brittle by war.
So if a bomb explodes at the Café I plan to visit today – who will avenge my death and who to see to the seeds I'd sewn for compassion and peace?
Pray not these men and women on prime media payroll and those of privileged wealth and inherited power who climb the backs of soft singing nightingales to cackle the message of crows. I’m none of these.
I was born of the womb, and crawled to a walk, and thereon through forests, and mountains, and shores, shared with all things visible.
My heart rises and falls and races with beauty and aches with darkness. I fade, feeling the color run from my hair and the suppleness of my skin to dry and wither.
I watch my children quiver like green leaves on the lithe limbs of youth – fearing their fall, but adoring their verdant energy.
All man is by nature equal before the rise of knowledge – and as the kingdom rises within each human being, who will he take for a sage and who for a fool?
Lo' we must focus the light in our hearts before we speak from our darkening minds. For it is we who keep our shadow company, not our shadow ours.