No thanks. We’re busy forgetting.
Forgetting it’s happening again in Palestine.
In Minnesota. Here. Now.
Forgetting our own capacity to justify cruelty.
Forgetting it starts with rounding up all “those” people.
Forgetting the thousands hauled off.
(Unmarked SUVs are better than cattle cars, no?)
Forgetting those starving in occupied lands,
or stowed in concentration camps —
well, let’s call them detention centers.
Forgetting there is a part of us that believes
there is a “they” who are ruining life for “us.”
Forgetting we are family, all of us.
Forgetting we are one.
Forgetting our way.
Lost, we are caught in our own death camp.
So then we start by remembering we are one,
and their pain is ours
and their hope is ours,
and then we begin to remember
the way out.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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