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“Come.” She said. She pulled him up and dried his face with the edge of her best dress.
“Where?” He hiccupped, too spent for sobs. Everything hurt.
“Away.” Her voice was soft but hard. “We’ll be miles from here by the time he wakes up.”
For Three Line Tales, Week 131
Photo: Atara Katz
Congregate
Around the things that matter:
The hopes of young
To grow old
Without being gunned down
By hate long fed.
The voices that have gone
Unheard
By overwhelming glower
And will no more be silenced
By greed or dread.
Congregate
Around those who stand proud
To challenge unjust power.
It is the coming together
Which will pave
New roads
For change.
For The Daily Post
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Do not insist
An action is not worthy
If it does not prevent
All woe.
Demanding a panacea
By claiming
Partial remedies contemptible,
Is a straw man argument
Meant to scare away
The very possibility
Of actual repair.
For The Daily Post
In this time of repeated violence, I find solace in the truths that do not fade, for they hold more substance than fleeting words, shoulder shrugs, denials, numbness, pretense, or calls for more violence as a ‘solution’ for the inordinate violence that’s already there.
Truths remain. Even in the face of the most urgent attempts to smother it.
In this time of sorrow and frustration, I am reminded:
“There is no way to peace.
Peace is the way.”
(A. J. Muste)
And
“The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it…”
(Chinese Proverb)
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