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Will We Stop?

Close your eyes
You can hear it
 Screams and cries
Exploding bombs
Each voice of victims
 Past and Present
 Rises up to touch the future
 In hopes that we will hear them
 Will we stop?

You say that we must aid oppressed ones
Whose voices cry out just as loud
Did they know their cries
Would bring their deaths
And suffering to their people
Just as painful as what they are
Enduring now?

Perhaps we think that death is better
Than enduring
But can we make that choice
For all?
Does not the splattered blood and twisted humanness
Beckon to our consciences
An eerie call?
 
I choose to hold our enemies
In highest love, compassion and forgiveness
Extending to our government
The same bequest.
Love for this country
Does not blind me to its painful imperfections
But urges me to call to it
For higher valor
Than war can beget.
 

                                 Judie C. Snelson
                       January 30, 2003
                       As the U.S. talks of war
                       With Iraq

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