BE TOO BOLD
A child long lost and grieving,
implores us from every tortuous remark
of everyman, who wades deeply in blood and tears;
‘PLEASE BE TOO BOLD!’
A starving girl with legs like twigs
calls for us to ‘BE TOO BOLD!’
As does a terrified boy who has just seen,
after the thud of the giant
has shattered the earth,
the red ragged end
where his foot and lower leg used to be.
And a child imprisoned
for doing what any child would do
in the same conditions,
calls for us to ‘BE TOO BOLD!’
The children call from the mouths
of all of us who wade deeply
in the blood of war
and the tears of unjust law.
The children call from the mouths
of politicians and business men
who try to hide
in their multi-million dollar guarded mansions,
and in their multi-million dollar jets and motor yachts;
where they wade deeply in the
blood and tears
and the flames and dust of war.
Where they wade deeply in the tears
of those alone at night
in prison cells.
And we may try to hide
our complicity,
but we cannot escape from behind our eyes,
where we are forever tormented
by the children’s cries.
And the misery of the mind spills over
making horror on horror.
Or like the children
we can see and seek the truth;
like those who do not look away
wanting to obscure it.
They have not been made to forget
that there is truth
to be found by all of us;
the truth of what is good for life,
that can be judged only
by all of us.
And their eyes beseech us;
‘BE TOO BOLD to leave me here
when you can save me…..’
‘BE SO BOLD’ they cry,
‘that you miss no opportunity.
When I grow and flower for you
however secretively,
BE TOO BOLD not to see
and to nurture me.
BE TOO BOLD to give up
unless you give up boldly,
when it is wise to try another way
and to fight another day.
BE TOO BOLD to be satisfied with lies
and when there is good cause
BE TOO BOLD
to accept no for an answer.
BE TOO BOLD to be bought off
or distracted by vanities,
and if you have to do the work from a distance
BE FAR TOO BOLD to stop…..’
When capitalists say
we are too bold,
be too bold not to ask
‘too bold for what?
Too bold to pretend
that I do not care?
Too bold for conformity
- well adjusted to capitalism?
Too bold to be duped and to not see that capitalism
causes children to be abused and turns them into abusers?’
Yes, we are bold in our desire for a quantum leap for culture. And
we work boldly to establish a system that is light years better. Is it
too bold for the health of humanity and our fellow creatures? No.
Our boldness is what well informed conscious nature does.
We know those who are too bold for everyone’s good.
We know them because they call love ‘too bold’.
They claim ownership with guns and money
and with weapons of mass destruction.
Their system enslaves us to money.
They invade to get more money
then boldly lie and name it
‘bringing democracy’….
....Genocide is called
‘bringing freedom’.
They call attack
‘self defense’
so ‘peace’
for them
is war
for
us
!