For those
who choose to change the world,
the plan, daily, must be told.
Guided by reason, but above all love and compassion,
Nonthreatening, Not pushy, Overflowing with understanding,
Unifying, Inarguable. It demands perfection.
The promotion of peace: inner and outer,
Freedom in general, while respecting
The rights of others.
A change made by choice, by the people,
Individually, choosing what's right, gaining
Knowledge, understanding, enlightenment.
Peace, because everybody wants it,
Not because we are all pointing guns at each other.
Threatening to shoot back.
Ways to practice and teach love, and empathy,
The usefulness of being nice and encouraging others.
Because we're all in this together.
Education reform, and health care for all,
Because we are alive, love each other,
And have the ability to do it.
Power to the people,
The plan is their own,
Spread through ideas, never by force.
The goal: to change the world,
To impact history,
That is to say, the future.
To wake someone up.
the plan, daily, must be told.
Guided by reason, but above all love and compassion,
Nonthreatening, Not pushy, Overflowing with understanding,
Unifying, Inarguable. It demands perfection.
The promotion of peace: inner and outer,
Freedom in general, while respecting
The rights of others.
A change made by choice, by the people,
Individually, choosing what's right, gaining
Knowledge, understanding, enlightenment.
Peace, because everybody wants it,
Not because we are all pointing guns at each other.
Threatening to shoot back.
Ways to practice and teach love, and empathy,
The usefulness of being nice and encouraging others.
Because we're all in this together.
Education reform, and health care for all,
Because we are alive, love each other,
And have the ability to do it.
Power to the people,
The plan is their own,
Spread through ideas, never by force.
The goal: to change the world,
To impact history,
That is to say, the future.
To wake someone up.
Jacob, I want to hang this over my writing table so whenever I begin anew, I never forget.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tercet is: "Peace, because everybody wants it, / Not because we are all pointing guns at each other. /Threatening to shoot back."
This made me think of a quote from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill: "The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favorable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it."