In the Month of Love, the Earth Moved

In Memory of those who died in the Turkey/Syrian earthquake
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In the darkness
The earth moved
The buildings fell
Bones were crushed
Hearts were broken.
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In this month of Love
A thousand vanished.
The dust buries all.
The tears wash nothing away.
Hearts can’t be healed.
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Night to day
Day to night;
Low hum of sorrow
Reaches its crescendo
What can we do?
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Mourning, grieving
Parents screaming.
The chasm opens
Between the living and dead.
Ghosts standing in gray light.
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We’ll see you again
When the stars fall
From the sky.

 

 

The American Dream In Times of Distress

Bono from U2 has this to say about our American Dream (What America means not just to him but to the world):
It’s more than just a place it’s a “land of promise, a song still being written, an idea.” At a speech in 2012 at Georgetown University he declared, “the idea, the American idea…that you and me are created equal. And God love you for it because these aren’t just America ideas anymore. There’s no copyright on them. You brought them into the world…These truths, your truths, they’re self-evident in us.”
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So just what IS the “American Dream”, the real American Dream? Let’s start with words from the Constitution:
“We the People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty on ourselves and our Posterity…”
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Then let us jump to the words of Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self –evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
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In today’s world it seems that these words are now only a dream! However, these words are even more important to focus on in this time of political and economic upheaval in our Nation.
Let us never forget the truth that American Democracy is not a dream. It’s as vital as the air we breathe and the water we need to drink. I feel that our politicians and many of our American citizens have forgotten that.