POEM: Insane Asylum Patience

Whose is worse
They argued
The insane asylum
Condemning barbarism
As the strongest barbarians
Write
And write makes right
Or sow it might
As cartoonish caricatures
Capture humanities
A tension
Leaving those under
Lying causes
Uniformly camouflaged
Amid academic renditions
In citing
Abel to question
and neighbor
And a religion that means
Peace
For know One
Con fronting
The
Of necessary evil

This poem, universally condemning , was inspired in the wake of the murders of 12 cartoonists and journalists in France.  The perpetrators of this violence were apparently Islamic extremists, in contrast to other extremists such as those perpetrating violence in a secular, , , or variety.  Violence is an evil to be rejected.  Violence should be rejected whether it is a lone assailant or with the official sponsorship of some nation- or sect.  Still, there is a special place in reserved for those who sponsor -on-earth by heaping violence upon violence in some official capacity.  If you believe that violence is a imperative, or in some amoral way necessary, I would suggest exploring a bigger or .  Perpetrators of violence are self-fulfilling prophets.  If we don't transcend the notion that violence is necessary, we will be rewarded with the perpetual struggle to dominate one another.  We are all recovering from the effects of violence.  This of hurt and feeds a reciprocal response with violence.  Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.  This is a powerful of both and .  This should not be taken flippantly; just look at the havoc perpetuating itself through the action of this !  However, while this law has profound ramifications on human , a palpable sign of the divine order of the created , humans are not bound only by this law.  Human free will, agency, can choose other options besides tit for tat.  Free will is a supernatural aspect of in the sense that it transcends mere ; it adds stuff to the mix of and its rolling out of the cause and effect world.  As Gandhi so profoundly put forth, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”  Of course, you don't “have to” be , just as you don't “have to” be violent.  This may be the most profoundly beautiful aspects of human , that each of us get to add our chosen to the mix of our shared .  And these will echo in eternity.

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