Photo: Atara Katz
When your mind wants one truth
But all facts show another,
Will you see what is there
Or mold sooth as you’d rather?
When you seek to believe
What you wish
Not what’s real,
Will you claim truth a fraud
Or urge gyp
Be revealed?
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Deny hate a room
In your heart
Anywhere.
Fill it instead
With soul truths:
The sweet breath
Of infants
Asleep against your chest.
Does not differentiate
Who is worthy of care.
Deny hate a room.
Allow compassion
Instead
To take hold
Everywhere.
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Photo: Ofir Asif
Do not let anyone tell you
That kindness
Is a privilege
For other times.
Do not let anyone convince you
That truth
Is peripheral
To the necessity of
Getting some things done.
Do not let anyone berate you
That hope is
Irrelevant
And you are somehow
Weak
For holding on
To empathy, veracity, civility, belief.
They are all
Relevant.
Especially
Now.
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Photo: Atara Katz
In a moment
We become
Whole or fractured
Foe or chum.
In a jiffy
We select
What to support
Who to reflect.
In this moment
And the next
Choosing truth
Will reject hate.
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Photo: Orly Fuchs Galchen
Some lust for power, covet shaming another, feed off anger and ire.
Some desire control, step on laws, trample all, heed no call but their gall.
Some relish what’s cruel, find odd joy in the crude, equate strength with the rude.
In their greed to succeed, they maim truth, cripple fact
And attack anyone who attempts to talk back.
But fear not:
Lust turns old
Greed grows cold
Lies don’t hold.
In the end, it’s foretold:
Truth takes root
Hearts bear fruit
Love unfolds
Life’s real gold.
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Be tender as you tender views and voice perspectives.
Be tender as you offer paths that some refuse (or fear) to take.
Be tender as you formulate your retorts to invectives.
Be tender even as you know how much’s at stake.
Be tender as you tender truth
As you hold fast to honest, fair objectives.
Do not lose heart
Even as some lose moral compass
And attempt to stain integrity
As disrespect.
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Be brave.
It’s time. It’s been time for too long. It feels eternity.
Take heart … tune off naysayers … and remove the grime of fakery and deception. Speak fact to polish off stains of misinformation, so Truth can once more spread its wings to sunlight, unburdened from prevarication.
Expose the burnish of veracity from under messy piles of perfidy.
Be kind, be firm, and wipe clean fib to showcase verity.
Reality awaits. Impatiently.
It is past time.
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photo: Pinterest
There is more good than bad in our world,
yet often bad shouts louder.
There’s more that’s beautiful than not,
though ugliness might steal the hour.
Love holds truth far more than hate,
and radiates the brighter.
So … be mindful of the disproportion …
as dark creeps in to dim what’s lighter.
And know:
Hearts will out-sing cacophony when led by hope,
even if fear may prowl the farther.
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As you stand at the precipice
Of truth
Take heed.
The climb back up
Is steep
If you lose grip
To deceit
Or greed.
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When you fret in worry,
Field misgivings,
Try to still the shiver
Of concern
Of doubt
Of qualm.
Take a moment
To get grounded
And remember what you know
In soul, in heart, in mind:
Sooth exists.
It
Lives
Between the breaths
Of Love’s
Eternal
Balm.
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