They walked through fields
Of heather
Seeking remedy
For those
Soon to be together,
Gathering the makings
Of the broom
They’d use
To sweep away their
Woes.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Heather in 27 words
They walked through fields
Of heather
Seeking remedy
For those
Soon to be together,
Gathering the makings
Of the broom
They’d use
To sweep away their
Woes.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Heather in 27 words
Replace your fretting with a voice.
Speak up
About your truth.
Resist the wish to curl up under pillows
To avoid
Unpleasantness
Conflict
Misunderstanding.
Push against the wish to look the other way
When humans
Someplace ‘other’ than your home
Flee injustice.
Replace apathy or indifference
With empathy.
Replace a narrow vision
With expansion of your heart:
There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’ unless you choose to emulate
Those who seek to divide and control
Instead of heal.
Replace your fear of the unknown
Your terror of the ‘stranger’
Whose lives, religion, culture
You don’t understand …
With the wisdom that we are
And never stopped to be
First and foremost human
And our children are as
Precious
As those born in other lands.
Replace the need to marginalize,
With the understanding that the only margins are those
We choose to accept
Or follow.
Replace the lumping of the ‘other’
Into warring words and baleful messages,
With actually seeing the individuals:
They are no different than you,
No less in need of help in times of crisis
They are no more inherently capable of hate
Than you.
Reject rhetoric that equates your safety
With the deprivation
Of another.
Replace it
With the facts:
We are stronger together
Than we ever can be
In division.
We are better together
Than we ever can be
In isolation.
We are safer in compassion
Than we ever can be
In prejudice or xenophobia.
We are all that we will nourish.
Speak up.
Let us help those who do not yet know truth,
See it
Hear it
Understand.
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