Then Shall We Be Free

Fear has armed us so that we shoot first

And ask questions later, if at all.

We have wandered far from the garden

Of original blessings into a land laid waste

By doing as we please.

Earth is subject to our ravenous desires.

We have forgotten her as parent

To all flesh, blood and bone.

We believe ourselves superior

To the relations with whom we journey.

We take offering nothing in return.

A few feast with their acolytes and minions

While billions struggle to survive

Or are content with distractions and trivial pursuits

Or with the angry blaming words of bigots and despots.

Minds and spirits sicken and wither from loss of love.

Free are those who respond to life

with love, grace and beauty of their own

for they are like the earth herself

regenerating from deep within

healing all that draw near.

Guarionex Delgado

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