When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
i would be as ignorant as the future
that forgives and forgets the past
as sublime as the dawn
that has looked down on towns
as the stars fade and the moon
is plucked by the ocean from the sky
I would be as ignorant as this planet
that dreads not but revolves around itself
these countries of profit and civil
unrest, fighting history, quarrels between gods
invented by men who would wield power
the kind of show that leads to a unified death
flame under flame, flower of the heaven-fold
obeying your will to die for a name
obedient to the scripture where my ancestors died
and i lived, because of cowardice and
because I wanted see another sunset, another dawn.
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 