Who Saves Us?
Jaidra
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WHO SAVES US?
I want every single person to take a look at their soul right now
Look at how horrendously we act towards each other.
I hope you don’t need me to tell you that something is terribly wrong
I don’t care where you live
I don’t care who you support
I don’t care who hears your prayers
or the reason for your fight
nothing justifies the cruelty that took place at the middle school in Beslan, Russia today
just as it wasn’t justified in airplanes earlier this week
or 3 years ago
death cannot avenge
it is a vast emptiness
I am outraged as a human being
that any human could even conceive of such a horrific plot
I am not denouncing the hostage takers alone
the monstrosities inflicted upon them are just as real
and also in need of vengeance
I am denouncing humanity as a whole
for producing a world that encourages such cruelty and depravity as viable courses of action and reaction
shame on us
my heart is with all the children and adults affected by the hostage tragedy in Russia tonight, but my biggest hope is that their hearts won’t dissolve in anger.
everyone needs to hold their children a little longer tonight
everyone who still can
but when tomorrow comes, everyone with a heart needs to help heal our world
we can’t afford to wait any longer
I wonder how far the ocean would swell
if all the tears shed tonight around the world were poured into it
will we ever have enough to wash the world clean?
I want every single person to take a look at their soul right now
Look at how horrendously we act towards each other.
I hope you don’t need me to tell you that something is terribly wrong
I don’t care where you live
I don’t care who you support
I don’t care who hears your prayers
or the reason for your fight
nothing justifies the cruelty that took place at the middle school in Beslan, Russia today
just as it wasn’t justified in airplanes earlier this week
or 3 years ago
death cannot avenge
it is a vast emptiness
I am outraged as a human being
that any human could even conceive of such a horrific plot
I am not denouncing the hostage takers alone
the monstrosities inflicted upon them are just as real
and also in need of vengeance
I am denouncing humanity as a whole
for producing a world that encourages such cruelty and depravity as viable courses of action and reaction
shame on us
my heart is with all the children and adults affected by the hostage tragedy in Russia tonight, but my biggest hope is that their hearts won’t dissolve in anger.
everyone needs to hold their children a little longer tonight
everyone who still can
but when tomorrow comes, everyone with a heart needs to help heal our world
we can’t afford to wait any longer
I wonder how far the ocean would swell
if all the tears shed tonight around the world were poured into it
will we ever have enough to wash the world clean?
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this is a tragedy,
tears,
time to repair,
such is the way of today and tomorrow,
and only you can change... only you can abstain from the ok, the checkered ok of the middleness and regardlessness and nasalness and horror .. and i cry.. i cry :(
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green
if all the tears shed tonight around the world were poured into it
will we ever have enough to wash the world clean?'
Ed said it perfectly in an interview when describing DTE. I cant remember exactly what he said, but he was getting at something like this...
"..mankind has been around for hundreds of thousands of years, so why is it, that in just the last hundred or so years man just starts to abuse the world and take it for granted? Gradually we are destroying the world- it's sad, it's evolution baby..."
I am so full of sadness right now that I could never cry enough tears.
So I have to use words.
I’m not sure if I am even coherent in these posts; structure is obscured by a powerful sense of urgency.
I think it’s my archetype. I have an inherent desire to save people.
In reality, I don’t save anyone. I have not made choices that gave me the skills or put me in a position to save people. I’m not a doctor or a politician; I haven’t joined the military or an aid organization.
What could I possibly do?
At this moment as I stare about me, I am still dumbfounded by the severity of the atrocities that have just taken place. A part of me is constantly grieving for all brutal events that happen on various scales throughout the world, but today I just can’t do it anymore. I can’t convince myself that one single thing in front of me is worth a moment of that pain. The pop I drink, the lamp, my computer, even my entire home becomes insignificant when child cruelty and murder is on the other side of the scale. How can I justify spending any more energy on these insubstantial things?
I am hard-pressed to find a part of my home that I wouldn’t give up to protect just one child.
My family is the only thing that balances the scale.
I don’t want to admit it, but in all honesty they tip the scale, far outweighing any other death I could imagine. My cold, selfish thoughts persist. Thank God it didn’t happen to my son.
The fatal flaw.
It is in our nature to justify the world around us. The problem is that we are only aware of the true weight of the people and things that are closest to us. It seems that distance and diversity distort units of measure and tears blur the lines one should never cross.
Ultimately our own children will always outweigh the children of our neighbors, whether we like to admit it or not.
However, when a purpose becomes so heavy that not even the life of a child can outweigh it
- we are all in grave danger.
dont ask me if i belive in god..aks me if i belive in humans...
we know mOOn and starts and foreign and long distanced planets but we fail in meeting our own selves..
we failed in our "humanity' exams...
may they rest in peace....
----
a dark poem....
the yard was full of smiles
they were happy that day
Ïh God how happy.
First the stones the leaves and the flowers shone
and then the sun
a huge sun all thorns but so very high in the heavens.
and then a cloud of dust and madness
shaddoed their pure years
marked their white lives...
""É cannot explain it," you said, "É cannot explain it,"
É find people impossible to understand
however much they may play with colors
they are all black. "
~~its better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you are not~~
F.ZAPPA