When a rooster crows,
cracking the morning air,
full throated and proud,
when a horse prances, whinnies,
vigorously shakes his head, then
defiantly gallops across the field,
when an eagle soars into the blue
out across lush green, high above
fences and trees, banking
on currents of mountain air,
It is the full expression of who they are,
the unfettered full expression
of all their potential for being
in this too often frustrating,
sometimes crippling world of ours.
When a biker lays on a new tattoo,
guzzles another beer, then
ear-splittingly revs his Harley,
drops it into gear without releasing the brake,
then tire-screamingly lays a rooster tail
of acrid white smoke high into the air,
It is the full expression of who he is,
the full unfettered expression
of all his frustrated potential for being
in this too often hobbling,
sometimes crippling world of ours.
When an incensed Gazan crouched
in a tunnel rages so violently
against caged oppression that he
fires volley after volley of lethal
rockets through the hot night air
toward his decades long oppressors,
It is the unmasked full expression of who he is,
the hope-hollow expression of lost dreams,
lost comrades, lost family, lost homes,
lost opportunity, lost hope, in this
too often crippling world of ours.
When an Israeli jet screams across the sky
firing devastating armaments into
crumbing close-huddled buildings
edged along a quiet blue sea,
crushing and killing all who have
not had time to flee, or have refused to,
Is that really the full expression of who the Israeli
people are? The Israeli people who have
suffered and defied hobbling crippling
insulting threatening lethal oppression of their own
for as long as troubled history records?
What would this frustrating, crippling, sometimes lethal
world of ours look like if there were space
for each of us to crow like the rooster,
gallop like the horse, soar like the eagle
on each and every Spring morning
as lush and fresh as this?
And how would we, if we so desired, create that space?
Would we clear more forests?
Burn more grassland?
Kill off more creatures?
Pollute more waters?
Foul more air?
Blot out the sun?
Would that be the full expression of who we are?
the fullest, noblest, wisest, most creative,
most accommodating expression of
who we really are as aspiring human beings
on this too often frustrating, hobbling,
sometimes crippling lethal world of ours?
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Morgan
UT
USA
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