Defense is frightening
It stems from fear,
Increasing fear as each defense is made
You think it offers safety.
Yet it speaks of fear made real and terror
justified
Gifts
From A Course In Miracles, Vaughan & Walsh
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the barn cat is cornered
not by real danger
but by a puppy curious and happy
it wants to play!
What can go
wrong?
Alas
fear grows, bristling up the cat’s back
from fear comes anger
perhaps hate
(what is THIS THING doing in my barn?)
then sudden violence
swish, slash
ninja cat strikes
peace and joy
interrupted
so too
in Palestine
Iraq
Freguson, Missouri, USA
over and over again
fear evolves to hate
hate evolves to anger
anger evolves to violence
fortified people
hiding behind black masks
behind military gear and megaphones
and guns
rockets too
peace and joy interrupted
so too in our own lives
fear becomes hate becomes anger becomes
personal violence
we wear our own kinds of armor
and wield our own kinds of weapons
there is violence in hateful looks
in bitter words
in rejection and silence
peace and joy interrupted
perfect love
casts our fear!
Come O Sacred One
awaken us to your Presence
give us that peace
that can only come
from the inside
out
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