Jul 2020
Statues are not the problem. The problem is that we make statues
out of living people. We glorify then. We deify them. We worship
them. That they may inspire us is not the problem; that we let them
turn us into little statues of themselves is perverse. If these living
people were truly worthy of adoration, or more, the would tell us
to look inside ourselves and find our own sacredness that we share
with all other creations in the Cosmos. "Join hands," the living
statues would tell us. "Love yourselves and thereby love all others."
All of us are divine. None of us warrant being cast into uncaring
bronze if ever we had turned a human being into a slave or murdered
millions in a genocidal wave westward. Embrace your innate di-
vinity and let your life be a monument to love.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
out of living people. We glorify then. We deify them. We worship
them. That they may inspire us is not the problem; that we let them
turn us into little statues of themselves is perverse. If these living
people were truly worthy of adoration, or more, the would tell us
to look inside ourselves and find our own sacredness that we share
with all other creations in the Cosmos. "Join hands," the living
statues would tell us. "Love yourselves and thereby love all others."
All of us are divine. None of us warrant being cast into uncaring
bronze if ever we had turned a human being into a slave or murdered
millions in a genocidal wave westward. Embrace your innate di-
vinity and let your life be a monument to love.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet, a novelist, and a human-rights advocate his entire adult life.
