Re: Photoshopping in Iran

grant marcus — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:32:45 -0000

A POET'S PSALM
TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:

Torture, tyranny, hedgemony kept in place
do not a freedom, liberty, democracy make--
And the words and blurbs we call "national security"
are really wheelings and dealings of corporate brutality--
So no matter the effusion of a president's eloquence,
it will not end the privileged few, their greed or opulence,
nor will it end the segration of those who have
from those who have nothing, nor will it truely
change by rebates of something their undjust condition--
Metaphors of articulation will not end wars and occupations,
and the turn of the screw will follow us
from recessions turned into depressions.
War keeps our nation poor.
And an eternal war on terror
will only keep us poor forever.
Tell me, what color is terror,
and what color is tyranny?
And is it fair to the rest of we millions and billions
to be swallowed by this beast as food for its belly?
War is not peace.
There is no peace through war.
Peace means peace and actions of peace,
and nothing more.
And change is change.
Change is not the same policies
substituted by new personalities.
change is not the same old faces
wearing the scars of the same old failures.
Change does not mean just more of the same.
"Change" means we do things differently
than we have ever done them before,
where words and faith turn to acts,
and those acts turn our tyranny into
tractors and ploughshares and rakes and hoes--
To build a nation from the fruits of war
will destroy the tree, the poison too bitter to eat.
We must stop spreading the seeds of hate,
and live by our labors of kindness,
and our deeds of forgiveness
so we can begin to harvest a brand new fruit
that will taste far sweeter from peace.

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