I stood with my sign - one of my favorites -
"Imagine Peace on Earth"
A man walks by.
"We'll have it when the military kills people like Gaddafi."
Okay.
Back to homeostasis...
A few minutes later,
Still standing with my sign - still one of my favorites -
"Imagine Peace on Earth"
A man walks up to me, stands in front of me and my sign.
"Imagine peace on earth. I have been dreaming of it ever since I served in Vietnam."
We Women in Black stay in silence when we stand,
So as the man seated himself on the bus bench,
I walked over to him, touched my heart, and bowed to him.
And cried on my way back to my place in the vigil.
One of the things that continues to boggle my mind is the number of people who truly believe, without a hint of irony, that the path to peace begins with killing all the people who disagree with them.
ReplyDeleteWell put, Thomas.
ReplyDeleteKilling all of the people who don't agree with us sounds like a recipe for extinction, since everyone has someone who doesn't agree with them.
Carol, I would have cried too.
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