We all need others to help us ease the burdens we
carry just as they, in turn, need us. So it has always been and will always be…
Just as we may well find inspiration, comfort,
hope … whatever … in words and achievements we find in select pages of history so,
too, we should bear in mind that we all become
history with each passing moment and what we say or do, great or small, may yet
encourage (or discourage) those who come after us to work through any of life’s
bad times into its better, kinder ways.
If a global humanity cannot make a lasting peace with its own, what chance a lasting peace with the natural world? (Sceptics regarding conservation, regeneration and climate change, please note.)
PEACEMAKERS, SALT OF THE EARTH or EVERYDAY HEROES
In the rain, acid rain, find them there,
easing the burden of our despair
Let the world roll out its history,
consigning us to memory,
clouds forbid even Apollo to weep;
in my dark, your light I’ll keep
though the flesh little more can stand
yet rejecting Death’s hand,
lessons
of history vowing to learn
treading muddy
graveyards but softly,
ever wary
of disturbing dreams
In the rain, acid rain, find them there,
easing the burden of our despair
Though the world blast into infinity,
find its many life-forms designed
to endure, nurtured by Apollo’s heat
and Earth Mother’s gentler tears
upon its vast, sprawling killing fields
trusting that the Children of Time
shall
rise above to make love not war,
do their
best to reassure restless ghosts
fearful
of dying all over again
In the rain, acid rain, find us still here,
easing the burden of global despair
Copyright R. N. Taber 2013
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