Blinded to Social Justice
Despair overwhelms
so too weariness
the loss of spirit
courage is weakened
counsel darkened
whom to trust?
find release
escape the captor
do the right thing
A call to Justice!
cries out
across the lands
too lately come
the aide of
fellowmen
alone
suffering
oppressed
We are the dead
who breathe
empty lives
who fear what isn't
who defend the
indefensible
who distrust the innocent
sightless and unseeing
deaf and unhearing
unmoved and unfeeling
Vast lie lands and people
- this very earth!
pleading action
fleeing humans
desperate families
parched earth
fellow wanderers
without hope
without help
These our Blood Kin!
by right and by birth
who cry as the dead
for deliverance
from evil
from cruelty
seeking refuge
merciful fellowship
right and just, together!
R.E. Slater
September 21, 2019
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Notes
This morning I find myself mulling over this past week's thoughts, decisions, and commentaries both written, unwritten and read. The complexity of life perplexes why so little progress is made locally as national and international constructs wash over us like so many destabilizing tidal waves. Many of which are unhealthy while some few are healthy. Issues such as witnessing how many forms of social unrest has taken us to those more poignant moments requiring actionable movement only to see one-and-all floundering in the wake of a strong backwash knocking us over unable to keep our footing to be pulled away from the shorelines of reason and goodwill. Which I think explains why focusing on controllable moments around us by participating in recurring life experiences are the only points of sanity we have left to us or feel empowered by.
The issues are too large, too deep, too complex, as we are discovering, leaving us with the only thing we can do which is to reorganize ourselves into larger, more cohesive regional blocks of social networks to systematically address the tidal washes of change confronting us to large scale world action. We can no longer live in our little bubbles pretending all is well. Rather, we each have obligations to fulfill in resolving societal detractors, destructive earthly practices, and the social injustices around us.
How? By counterbalancing those negatives with the good things the bible urges us to enact amongst each other and into the world beyond. Such Spirit things as peace, love, mercy, forgiveness, and unity. Our natural tendencies bespeak our fragility as a species - if not the weak mindedness bourne our humanity that we stand up to disinformation to create constructive moments of rightful actions. And yet, if we do nothing but sit and judge nothing is done.
Whether enacting better democracies or Spirit-based resolves, each requires a personal and generational duty to the larger society around us to contribute to its health and healing according to the social networks and livelihoods we each have and bear a responsibility to address regarding the weighty issues pressing in on us from all sides. Fear, isolation, and anger are the poorest constructs to build upon. Much better we respect each other, listen to one another, and build a future we might be proud. One that is good, morally strong, and vibrantly cohesive in the face of so many societal and earthly negatives.
Peace,
R.E. Slater
September 20, 2019
