Today’s blessing comes via Elie Wiesel.
A man who understood injustice…prejudice and woe
having survived the Nazi concentration camps over 70 years ago…
The words he spoke once he was liberated…
today should be accentuated and stressed…
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice…
But there must never be a time we fail to protest.”
Previous winners were Elie Wiesel,
Mother Teresa, Bob Hope,
Norman Rockwell, Rosa Parks,
Walt Disney and a Pope*…
B.B.King and Yo Yo Ma,
Dylan and Pearl Bailey,
Frank Sinatra, E.B. White,
Tom Hanks and Alvin Ailey…
Meryl Streep and I.M. Pei,
Spielberg and De Niro,
Harper Lee, Casals, Aretha –
Every one a hero.
Shockingly, another name’s
Been added to the list,
With whom most honorees, I think,
Would hate to coexist.
For if you read Rush Limbaugh’s quotes,
So shameful, cruel and mean,
You likely would agree his presence
In that group’s obscene.
It should have come as no surprise
For such a bad decision
Is what’s to be expected from
The master of division.
*Pope John XXIII
Road.
Endless.
Allow one to be carried by the mob.
Swept away.
Blind fate.
When tired,
they replaced.
But not us.
Chilled,
the bone.
Throats,
parched.
Out of breath
we,
pressed on.
Found Poem: Elie Wiesel- Night
We suffer greatly
So that the task
Of helping others
Can be accomplished.
Let the chorus of anguish
Sing in our hearts,
And be heard
In the streets of despair.
We must live
So as to bring
Our brothers through the night,
Which we have been blessed
To endure.
We, who have suffered
Beyond all endurance,
Possess the fire
To show the way.
Written after reading "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
A flames burnt up
humans
You wrote what
you had to
Have we learned
anything
over the years?
Well - mass murders
still go on
and thousands
suffer
Possesing little
hope
we march
into the
future
holding a
small
candleabra
which may illuminate
the patdh
for a moment
for a brief moment
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