Racism USA

I see changes coming

but fear we may forget 

the kind of people we've already been

Behind our smiles of comradeship

social accommodations are easily breeched

and the return to bias is conveniently brief

Scapegoating rises easily from our souls

with simple gestures and rapt remembrance;

a familiar tale will toss us back 

to patterns germinating within our flesh

One nagging itch

releases the venom of the past 

warming our memories 

gathering the fragments of hate'

Carnival masks are donned, dusted 

patched and polished to spite; 

facades, reshaped, hide our face 

guarding our eyes lest they show ugliness

Racism is the easiest cover-up of national sin 

once we're convinced that every one's in

*The ultimate goal of everything is God, and God cannot be caught by our scheming.  To quote Meister Eckhart again, 'Anyone who looks for God in any particular way, gets the way and lets go of God.' Just as the source of everything is to be situated ultimately in the incalculable spontaneous gift of God, so too its fulfillment depends on God.

-Simon Tugwell

*...the only achievement required for an inheritance is the achievement of a death.

-Simon Tugwell

*People's lives are changed by casual sayings that they misunderstand or mishear.

-Simon Tugwell