I Want to Live in a World

I want to live in a world
where everyone has the right
to await Freedom, Read on…
I want to live in a world
where everyone has the right
to await Freedom, Read on…
“One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do….”
— Russell Baker Read on…
Symmachus the pagan appealed to the Emperor:
‘We look at the same stars; the sky belongs to all;
the same universe surrounds us.
Does one cannot arrive at so sublime a secret by only one road.’ Read on…
Our father who art in revelations,
a crowd of unholy ghosts
suspended over unmarked graves
bouquets of lost souls misplaced
a broken armistice
like empty promises
and some commandments Read on…
Fill the clouds with pale red
Sow the sky with soot
Show me the starving dead
Fed by the angry gun. Read on…
While sitting in the waiting room, I had another coughing fit, which caused everyone to turn and stare. My throat was so sore; I didn’t want to swallow my own spit. Every time I coughed, my ears felt like they were going to burst.
Read on…
The prejudice lurks, a gestating beast,
hate masquerading as faith, intolerance as belief,
while, righteous tongues mouth prayers,
beseeching Him for tax-relief. Read on…
Where some crave eternity,
Deathless eternities
Wrapped in blank aha moments,
They confine themselves Read on…
There’s a pestilential storm
Rising up in the ranks of humanity.
Xenophobic men who don’t know how to stand;
Fear and bigotry make them shout out Read on…
Mighty sun are your lessons done?
Puffy clouds are you done speaking?
Blades of grass is there no class
Where I can learn just what I’m feeling? Read on…