[Peace-discuss] Fwd:a good poem

[jencart]

Anne Robin writes--

Dear Friends,  I am trying to send this to a whole list.  I hope it works and  I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.  Peace in you heart.  Anne Robin

>I received this poem this morning, after the news, after the unabashedly fed
>up
>tone of my aborted prayers, after the pacing and sitting while my coffee got
>cold in my cup hearing the news we'd taken down the first Iraqi flag in the
>first
>town we'd "conquered" and replaced it with an American flag, after President
>Bush
>was quoted after hearing our bombs might have injured Saddam Hussein "This
>is too good to be true", after this a friend forwarded me Sarah Browning's
>poem
>from Washington DC...LR
>
>PRAYER OF THE ASHAMED ATHEIST
>
> > > >When there is no good in us
> > > >Summon Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Corrie
> > > >Summon Emma Goldman, Philip Berrigan
> > > >Summon Walt Whitman
> > > >Summon James Baldwin
> > > >Summon Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman
> > > >Summon Harriet Tubman
> > > >Summon Mother Jones, Medgar Evers
> > > >
> > > >Be with us now
> > > >Be America
> > > >Be with us in our marching
> > > >Be in our bodies that lie in streets
> > > >Be in our nightmares as we try to sleep
> > > >Do not leave us
> > > >Whisper, hector, shout
> > > >through our bullhorns
> > > >through our throats
> > > >
> > > >Shout
> > > >We are America
> > > >We are Elizabeth Cady Stanton
> > > >June Jordan
> > > >We are Muriel Rukeyser
> > > >We are the miners shot at Homestead
> > > >We are Sacco and Vanzetti,
> > > >We are Langston Hughes
> > > >Essex Hemphill
> > > >Paul Monette, Audre Lorde
> > > >We are hope, we are nothing but hope
> > > >We are the ancestors to come
> > > >We fling ourselves into the future
> > > >
> > > >Come, say it with me:
> > > >We are Sojourner
> > > >We are Truth
> > > >
> > > >Sarah Browning


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