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PEACE PATH

Maybe making a peace path for all to live, will allow for others to live without fear, making us all live in safety and happiness for all of our days. 
Peace and love are the way of life, making a path to the afterlife, by letting each live with their ways of life. 
Maybe each group should be able to live in an area like the Indian reservations allow, letting each group have their flag their laws making each have their own peace path. 
No one should be forced to live under ways that make them want to rebel, only a peace path to life should be allowed. 
Maybe this is not living in integration, maybe it is living under criminalization, depending on which side holds the power, the other live in fear and prosecution.  
Peace is the only way, walking in peace and love and cooperation makes life easy for all every day. 
The children are watching and learning, making them choose a path of good or bad, so make options that will allow for peace and love for all. 
Lifting prayers to God, today and always. May our path home to God, be bright and shine like the gold and stars.

Premium Member More Hopeful Inscriptions

"I believe through any trial
there is always a way"

Such profound belief
in powers of love
is hard for my hands
to honestly sing
and not shyly wave away

With integrity of my final
truthful say

But, still
I do silently believe
as polyvagal Health Theorists 
systematically play

Through any win/lose
or lose/lose trauma trial
we always do our best
in a more resonant
win/win therapeutic 
co-arising way

To both sing and standing dance
our most resiliently harmonic day

To withstand a more resistant
wounded child's lack of nurtured
healthy nature spirited way 
to robustly pray

In this
our cooperative
co-invested circle
of soulful gospel
sacred spacetime stay

I believe through alarming 
Othering trauma
of disabling marginalization,
criminalization,
commodification,
AnthroSupremacist colonization

Nonviolent multicultural compassion
is always our healthiest
act of win/win co-invested action
loving our wealthiest resonation

Drumming indigenously wise 
thrumming interdependent nations
restoring our humming 
resilient 
EarthJustice folkway.

Premium Member Why Is It

Why is it
those who reside in mental hospitals
find themselves struggling to remember
This is supposed to be a hospital,
and not a prison for society’s revenge?

Why is it
those who find themselves imprisoned
struggle to remind themselves
and each other
this is supposed to be a prison,
and not an insanely vengeful mental hospital?

Why is it
bondage breeds violence
as freedom feeds cooperative democracy,
mutual empowerment?

Why is it
defending capital-hoarding elites
breeds criminalization and militarization,
while freeing human natures
to embrace all Earth’s nature-spirits
feeds ecological democracy
to polypathically grow,
contagiously expand in joy
and wonder
and mutual awe?


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