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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. Rall
                       January 30, 2003
                       As the U.S. talks of war
                       With Iraq

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