i see so many straggly creatures across the pages of Time

they frighten me like parental fights without love

hatred upon heated-curses

stretching a million miles across life's callous seas

i smell the ugly words of maggot-mouths

filling the air with jackal-gas

smothering decency with the commonness of filthy-flames

burning upon the grains of sands

what can i do to change our stance

alter our course of destructive spikes

our seductive might that destroys our life

encasing us in our silly flights

set to ruin what's blank in our sight

i'd like to know

[although i think i do]

what sank we One

without gratitude

or rank

*Reflections Jean Sulivan:

  -Because the Gospel knows what human nature is like behind the veil of its pretenses, it can remind us that a system based on abundance and greed is radically deprived.  As we come to recognize that the earth is finite, we discover an insatiable dissatisfaction in our hearts.

  -The liberation that the Gospel aims for is first of all interior, which is as true for the poor as the rich, and in the absence of that liberation, all changes are only a matter of appearances.

  -The Gospel doesn't know social justice as we know it; it deals with interior justice that can express  itself only when we search for a social justice that doesn't confuse itself with economic expansion.

  -...who has ever told the truth without encountering the cross?

  -In general we tend to denounce in others something that's also part of ourselves.