I heard this poem on Christmas Eve and searched to share it with my Facebook friends. I hope youll find it a breath in our world... The Only Sermon by Andrea Ayvazian if we dug a huge grave miles wide, miles deep and buried every rifle, pistol, knife, bullet, bomb, bayonet, if we jumped upon fleets of tanks and fighter jets with tool boxes, torches unwelded them dismantled them turned them into scrap metal if every light-skinned man in a silk tie said to every dark-skinned man in a turban I vow not to kill your children and heard the same vow in return if every elected leader agreed to stop lying if every child was fed as well as racehorses bred to win derbies if every person with a second home gave it to a person with no home if every mother buried her parents not her sons and daughters if every person who has enough said out loud I have enough if every person violent in the name of God were to find God we would grow silent, still for a moment, a lifetime we would hear infants nursing at the breast hummingbirds hovering in flight we would touch a canyon wall and feel the earth vibrate we would hear two lovers sigh across the ocean we would watch old wounds grow new flesh and jagged scars disappear as time was layered upon time would slowly be ready to begin
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 22:00:51 +0000