People Over Politics, World Over Wealth

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Ride the Whirlwind ~ Philip Brent Harris

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Do I not have enough challenges in my life?
Do I not possess a significant depth of feeling?
Am I a shallow-rooted tree pretending strength,
even though I provide the same shade as my
more deeply-rooted cousins? Perhaps, I am a
book of blank pages slowly being filled, though
I’ve only recently begun to read, to share the
secret missives I have penned on the marrow
hidden within my bones. Have I begun to chew
through the gristle, to scrape away the scraps
of flesh with my teeth, so I can crack my bones
to suck out the deepest meaning of my life? I
don’t know, and that may be my problem. If I
ask other people what they see, what they hear,
will I understand whatever they might share?

What a strange mix of metaphors to describe
places where the sun rarely shines, those blank
or scribbled letters in my crabbed printing,
forced to fit within the spaces I have allowed
them to grow. Some I have painted on scraps of
thought, imbued with meaning only I may ken,
Why does it matter, even to me, if another small
life passes away, unremarked and unremarkable?
Is it simply that I dreamed of greatness in the
manner of many a young man or woman? Did
I simply fail to live into my dreams, my desires?
Perhaps, my tree, no matter how shallow-rooted,
has provided enough shade to keep those I love
and have loved, shadowed in cooling breezes, and
that will suffice till I someday fall in time’s wind?

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Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,

Unite the World

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Ride the Whirlwind ~ Philip Brent Harris