LET ALL OF US FORGIVE OUR FOES

 “May all our hearts Deep Peace, with Justice, Love, and all our selfishness, now rise above. May all of us appreciate what's true, have Mercy on our planet, green and blue. May We all value Kindness, most of all, responding when we hear each sufferer call. Let all of us our gratitude now show; in all, may sweet tranquility now grow. May everyone on Earth be richly blessed, and love lay Every person's fears to rest. For tolerance and patience, Thank You, Lord, let every victim's health now be restored! And lest this prayer-poem last too long, let every heart now sing its Own sweet song!”

Copyright 2016 Stephen Cromwell Gifford

WE'VE GOTTA LEARN TO LOVE AND PRAY

“We’ve scapegoats, demons, enemies galore, when Will we re-evaluate the lies? The facts we all too easily ignore, the screams, the moans, the kids’ and mothers’ cries! Complacency, indifference, and hate, all these too much possess our reckless hearts. Is it too much fer us ta pray and wait? ‘Cause prayer’s how real revolution starts!”

Copyright 2016 by Stephen C. Gifford

I'LL FEEL WHAT OTHERS FEEL!

I'll Feel What Others Feel!

I Open Up my Heart to Breathe their Pain, their Hatred, Fears, and Anger Coming In. And What I Feel I Shall Not Feel In Vain, comPassion's Gonna Help us All ta WIN! Let's Never Be aFraid ta Feel what Is, for Heaven's Gonna Help our Hearts to Love; we All are Christ's and Gaia's, Hers and His; our Fears, with Help from Them, we'll Rise aBove! And we'll feel JOY! And Won't That Feel All Right? All Right!

Copyright 2013 by Marie Louise Nickerson

BACK-AND-FORTH

BACK-AND-FORTH

A. YOU'VE GOT TO LOVE YOUR SELF, PLEASE UNDERSTAND!

B. WHAT LOVING ACT WOULD YOU HAVE ME PERFORM?

A. FIRST, PLACE UPON YOUR SELF NO MEAN DEMAND!

B. YOU MEAN, BE KIND TA ME?

A. YOU'RE GETTING WARM! YOUR SUFFERING YOU'VE GOTTA SACRIFICE!

B. LIKE GIVING UP MY BEING HARD ON ME?

A. OH, YES, INDEED, AND START TA BE MORE NICE, AND IF YOU WILL, YUH'LL START TA BE MORE FREE! A MASOCHISTIC HABIT'S HARD TA BREAK; YOU'VE GOT TA PRACTICE BEING KIND TA YOU! AND DO IT ALL THE TIME, FOR JESUS' SAKE; FORGIVE AND LOVE YOURSELF A LOT, PLEASE DO!