SO OBVIOUS
It does not require two eyes,
nor even one to see
both sides of any argument.
Yet often it requires tear ducts & sentiment
to survive the understanding of the why’s
that bring about such great hate and resentment.
© M Durfee
© M Durfee
8.16.2014
Tearducts and sentiment...I fear we will drown in our tears before sensibility and responsibility returns...
ReplyDeleteI am afraid that it is our community of tears raising the sea levels Shadow---and glacial melt.
DeleteWhen everything is muddled, not even 1 good eye can make one understand ~
ReplyDeleteI wish someone could point this one eyed man to place that the confusion was resolved in amity and fairness Grace.
DeleteGaza.
ReplyDeleteThat was the place that birthed the thought Ivan, but certainly not the only one.
DeleteVery few people seem to see both sides
ReplyDeleteSadly if more people would simply close their eyes and maybe cork up the ears and come to rational thinking--*sigh* it is hard to back from a long held position Charles, even when it is proven to cause more problems than it solves.
DeleteThe maxim "an eye for an eye" have left many blind and no longer able to see both sides of the argument.
ReplyDeleteCalvin that is a good way to look at it, maybe if more people tried to turn the other cheek for once or a thousand times?
Delete... hate ... resentment ... and ... release?
ReplyDeleteMeowmomma. it is the release that has most people on edge no matter where they be. All are afraid of what it is being released, there is no forewarning.
DeleteI standing firm always a bad thing, or is it the WAY we stand sometimes?
ReplyDeleteOne may be as firm in their convictions as they feel they have to be, but the firmer the stance, the less likely one is able to empathize with what they are standing against. An intractable position never allows for resolution of any conflict.
DeleteStanding for what you believe in can embrace the humanity on both sides. Intractable is a label for someone who's side we don't wish to credit. This is where we seem to differ. I understand the yearnings on both sides of the border while standing against the demonization of EITHER side. But we keep caring, singing, moving forward. . . hopefully together. . . . . Peace to you, my Brother <3
ReplyDeleteCloudia you do not speak for the state of Israel not do I speak for the Arabs in Gaza, as a minority Caucasian surrounded by an All Black Majority population, you must think I have no empathy fro the people of Israel, you're wrong, I understand, your friends vitriol I think is ignorant but I understand. But I also lived through the days when the shoe was on the other foot and the Majority population was Caucasian and the minority population Black.
DeleteAs long as the minority population has power and control over the majority population there is going to be discontent unless some accord can be reached. Do all my neighbors love me, fuck no. Nor I them. But we have come to an accord, a detente. My land is my land and their is theirs and without an invite we stay the hell out of each others business.
Did we have issues to work out? Yes absolutely, Were they worked out with violence? NO. Some straight forward words, that made both sides know let the boundary's be where they are. Israel and the Arabs of the Palestine must come to the same place. It may have to wait for a more sane generation to rise but I think the time is now. Not tomorrow, but now.
why...is a question i dont think we can even answer at times...i mean you can give a reason and sometimes seem to fool even yourself but...
ReplyDeleteI disagree Brian, history is not always written by the winners, the losers write too. Somewhere in the middle is the why answered.
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