People Over Politics, World Over Wealth

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Time Bomb ~ Philip Brent Harris

Walk into the forest with me. Note the understory,
the overstory, and the overarching means which tie
together our greatest epiphanies with pure terror. We
know what to do, what should be done but stand
paralyzed, incapable of transforming into what we
planned to become. More than our dream, our purpose
conceived before our birth. What a loss, all that we

might have learned, all that we might have taught.
If only, if only We must recognize the mazes we are
running through, the spinning wheels we run inside,
knowing they serve the venal misers. Greedy people
with no other purpose but greed. Although they tell
themselves it’s not so, they harm any their paths
cross, through war and deeds which stagger all.

We tell ourselves nothing can be done. When we
know such horrors as drugs, guns in every hand, with
extended magazines. The world has staggered off
course, and we must strive to right it. Wars, prejudice,
low wages, hunger, depredation and death continue
because the greedy will it so. This could vanish
in less time than it takes to write this sentence.

It the world’s a stage, can we call an intermission?
Stop and think this through; decide what acts take
the stage. We’ve had the bellicose, violent players.
They are good at what they do. The theater crashes
around our ears, burying us beneath the debris of
wildfires, floods, droughts. Lives shattered and
littered across every landscape, to trip us, pitch us
into an abyss of our own making. We can change.

Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,

Unite the World

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Time Bomb ~ Philip Brent Harris