What Good Does Activism Do? One Poetic View
Jody Williams - Nobel Peace Prize Winner on Activism
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What Good Does It Do...
to birth the infant,
only to feed it pesticide filled food?
What good does it do to vote,
only to return to the ego of our division?
What good does it do to stroke a check for the cause,
only to return to the greed which plunders our children?
What good does it do to encourage the fight for justice,
only to sit back and wager on the destruction of the weak?
What good does it do to say I love you in betrothal,
only to feign the demonstration to your mistress?
Isn’t it better to vote and act in the ways of honor?
To be vigilant on the issues of life
Isn’t it better to fund the project for healing?
And work in earnest to insure it’s mindfully spent
Isn’t it better to seek to understand the battles we wage?
Than to be one who profits from the losses of our planet
Isn’t it better to mean I love you?
Than surrender it to the hypocrisy of foolish verbiage
We can be aware and not act, yes we can walk away
We can think and feel and still turn our heads
We can act as if we are living,
We can be anything we choose!
We can also be conscious of living to the full
We can act in the interest of all peoples
We can be anything we choose!
We can recognize hope in the action of being…one
May Peace abound in your heart, in your mind, in our world!
