#charliehebdo
Drop the sword you wished to ******
pick up the pen and let the words come out.
Let them leap and dance as much as you can,
even when spears press hard against your heart.
“Who are you?” They ask in disbelief.
“Why, of course.” You rise to your feet. “Je suis Charlie.”
Mar 28, 2016
Mar 28, 2016 at 7:01 PM UTC
Offence has no real validity,
Yet it is used to justify the taking of lives
Is there one, that the world does not offend
If so that person has not lived or felt,
Warlords, rapists, racists, murderers and those who are cancers on society walk among us daily
Those who profess to know the will of god and act on his behalf,
Perceiving and executing unhelpful dogma that infects our reality
The words respect and correctness have become harbingers for cowards,
As our muteness silently strips us of our freedom,
Apologies are offered gift wrapped in fear
Sticks and stones still break our bones but pictures and words now **** us**
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 8:26 PM UTC
The city of love was shuddered today
A proposal was rescheduled and a sweet gesture silenced
By a scattering of devils who advocate terror & violence
The Mona Lisa wept and the Metro bawled
‘Où est le courage?’
Il n’y avait pas courage
The cowardly men who fought guns against pens
Let them know after all their wrong
The Eiffel tower still remains tall and strong
For it is the liberal views that brought Paris such beauty and wonder
Freedom of speech will rage through the lightning and the thunder
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 6:35 PM UTC
Blood in winter snow:
dying sun at dusk, filling
the skies in sorrow.
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 4:18 PM UTC
Some sacred hoodlums
In the chains of religion
Disrupt the world's peace
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 2:12 PM UTC
The killers deserve no name
let's forget about them,
let's not talk about them,
any more,
let's find them and forget about them.
forget about them, they don't exist.
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Let's remember the writers,
the people with lives,
with families,
with beauty and grace and elegance
in their minds that allowed them to speak
freely, freedom, free-thinking
ideals that helped us to laugh through the pain
of our sick, evil society.
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Let's remember Charlie Hebdo,
their ability to help us to laugh at the
ludicrous, ignorant pain of the human condition,
did not deserve,
to end with a bullet,
a massacre,
a cowardly outrage.
Let's remember the writers,
the human beings whose lives represent
the fear, that we simply have to continue to ignore.
In case you all forget, let's remember the
real victims.
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 12:19 PM UTC
We must recognize
this is not our home,
yet, their home is ours as well.
We must realize
our world is inter-connected
their pain lays dead in our street,
We must remind
ourselves that our freedom
was just desecrated by the strong arm
of evil, it lurks, around us, anywhere it chooses.
We are asked
to understand
Charlie Hebdo is satire,
in violent terms their point is made,
yet we cannot laugh,
only mourn,
for those souls that lay dead on the tiles,
are us, are you, are me, are human beings.
Tonight, the sun has set on Paris,
people will not sleep,
people will worry, hold one another, walk in confusion.
Tonight across the globe,
we know again,
the pen wields a powerful angst,
yet,
we must also respect,
human lives could not ever deserve,
their legacy to be defined by a bullet.
Let's pick up our pens and continue
to fight, to maim, to expose
evil.
Let's mute that voice of evil
while we pray,
while we wrap our heads around,
the unnamed victims,
that tomorrow will be identified,
sisters, brothers, mother's fathers, friends, cousins,
people, human beings with a passion for laughter,
with a desire only,
to suggest that life deserves laughter.
Let's drown out evil,
with the memory of sweet humor.
Let's chuckle,
a positive, horrific, peace!
Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 11:31 AM UTC