Today
I'm taking my virtual fountain pen in hand to write just one Friday
letter. This has been a week and then some, filled with deadlines, threats, and global terror. I think that very often poetry is one of the best ways to deal with feelings and concerns this deep, so I wrote another poem. I've been thinking about it all week, so I'm sending this letter to all of you, to presidents, prime ministers, supreme leaders, really everyone, as we're all in this together.
Earth from Artemis II
To Everyone,
A quiet thing at first,
no louder than a breath,
kindness passing hand to hand
like a small, steady flame.
Respect grows in its shadow,
roots threading under borders,
lifting what was hardened
into something we can feel.
Hope arrives without spectacle,
just a door left open,
a chair pulled close,
a voice that chooses truth.
And peace,
not distant, not impossible,
but here, in the fragile work
of seeing one another whole.
Sincerely and with love,
A Global Citizen In Search of Peace
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Wishing you a very peaceful weekend.
Thank you Bonny. That poem is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBonny, this is wonderful! Thank you so much for writing it and sharing it with all of us. It was just what I needed after this hard week.
ReplyDeleteWell, Bonny. This made me tear up, and I hope is was as therapeutic for you to write it as it was for me to read it. You have gone to the heart of the matter, the real truth. We are all in this together and what we do to one affects all of us. Let's continue to hope that someone will manifest some peace. Peace, sister, peace.
ReplyDeleteAmen, Bonny! I love the image this gives me... peace coming in and pulling out that empty chair and sitting down. I am going to clip this poem and include it in my morning meditation... a good reminder to see others whole. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteBonny, that is extraordinary! Thank you for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteWell said. It's been so hard to go from the global joy being expressed for those four lovely, diverse people in space all week to what's been going on here on the ground. How can anyone think that you can only obtain peace through war?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful, Bonny. Like . . . gives-me-tingles- beautiful. Thank you for sharing your words of peace and hope. XO
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