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Your pain is my pain, because human suffering was never an individual matter The wisdom of every culture, the founder of every faith, made that clear We cannot separate suffering into cubes, accept baby deaths in Africa by filthy water We got civilized together, ate what Old and New World tribes discovered at a price Many died testing toxicity in herbs, fruit, and such, so families might survive We all farmed once, built cities together, and polluted the planet as one human species We seldom think of immigrants as “planet-polluters” – while excluding ourselves! LORD does what He can to remind us of shared fates, one consciousness Some research declares menstrual pain as part of one pain body, of ALL SISTERS There is one PAIN-BODY that is felt in the species, One Human Body in suffering No one will blame Adam and Eve, and declare themselves pure, never having Tempted others to sin, or guilty by association, planning evil to Others, incessant plotting Somewhere behind that mental clutter, we know WE endangered species, kill cows & elephants … Together; that World War I began in Sarajevo, but never made India innocent We take credit for medical miracles as humanity, not Drs. Separate and Self-Sufficient! When one tribal thug kills babies, or wipes out the Wooly Mammoth, we own it as One - Homo Habilis first used tools in Africa, became Homo Sapiens there, gazing across the Ocean Walked to Eurasia, male blood and mitochondrial DNA daily explode myths of separation How pastors, priests, and Power treat and mistreat women, is now owned as a global problem The sooner we believe none is innocent, as in South African apartheid, Southern Segregation … We’ll join Voices like Dr. King’s to do holy work: defending the Promises (of God and) Constitution
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