A cry in the wilderness
shudders slowly beneath our skin,
whispering softly,
"All we want is peace..."
Men bear arms
against their brothers
while women hold their sisters,
weeping with woe ~
when will this cycle of raging cease?
We must open our hearts
to the sun's healing gaze
if we are ever to find Wisdom waiting,
lost within this fog
of folly & fury.
Truth leans
& learns its lessons well
as the wind scatters
sacred memories of silence
beyond the reach
of shadows' greedy grasp.
We wail
within these tides
of darkness,
praying
for these killing fields
to fill with blooms,
the lilting laughter
of lilies, instead...
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Awww. You're gonna make me cry, Richard...& I rarely ever cry. Ok, weird humor time, 'fore I do. 
re: "while remaining yourself" ~ I always tell people that I gotta be me...no one else applied for the job. Too labor~intensive. 
"I am you & you are me & we are all together..." At least, in spirit, we are, my darlin' Scarecrow. Muddy...I've gotta send you an email now. I'm goin' offline for awhile after I do. Need to rest myself & my 'puter a bit. AOL is misbehavin' again. 
I love you, too, my dear, dear Friend. Always have, always will. As the song by BS&T went..."I love you more today than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow..." Truth. 
Man's folly is fighting within himself. There's an old saying that what we do not like about others is the very thing we fear within ourselves. There is a lot of truth to that, I think. We all have duality in our natures, like it or not. There is duality in ALL things. Light & dark, good & bad, day & night...it is essential for one that the other exists. Yes, we ARE all born naked. My late beloved used to say, "A shroud has no pockets." Nor does it have room for material things, such as money or weapons. We should be more concerned with prospering at a spiritual level, than at a material, physical one. 
