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
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