{"id":2240,"date":"2016-05-02T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:53:09","slug":"poem-another-martyr-bides-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/poem-another-martyr-bides-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Another Martyr Bides The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another martyr bides the dust<\/strong>
\nAnd I was a stray<\/strong>
\nBeside myself<\/strong>
\nIn the fog<\/strong>
\nOf yet another mourning<\/strong>
\nThe missed over my heart<\/strong>
\nFeeling only that ephemeral beaten<\/strong>
\nThe wait on my brain<\/strong>
\nFueled into thinking of the dread only<\/strong>
\nAnd the little I no<\/strong>
\nOf what remains<\/strong>
\nAs the truth is bared<\/strong>
\nIn ash holes with names<\/strong>
\nTemping to soil<\/strong>
\nWon an other’s life work<\/strong>
\nUn-till arising from hour grounding<\/strong>
\nReady ourselves for a human race<\/strong>
\nWear blood is thicker then water<\/strong>
\nTearing at our soles<\/strong>
\nAnd water thicker than heir<\/strong>
\nThe salt of the earth bides<\/strong>
\nIt’s time<\/strong>
\nToo clear the weigh<\/strong>
\nOf what thou dust<\/strong>
\nAhead razed for awe<\/strong>
\nAs be holding the sons rays<\/strong>
\nBringing a bout of sunshine<\/strong>
\nAn enduring lightness<\/strong>
\nOut shining<\/strong>
\nAny faux<\/strong>
\nHow ever clan destine<\/strong>
\nIn efface of such shrouding allowed<\/strong>
\nIn countering any illicit clout<\/strong>
\nEver looming<\/strong>
\nWhatever we’ve<\/strong>
\nGot together<\/strong>
\nWith standing any in thralling strayin’<\/strong>
\nRapping up awe that is frayed<\/strong>
\nFor whatever may seam<\/strong>
\nKnow longer<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wrote this poem a while back, but I’m publishing it now to honor the passing of Father Daniel Berrigan who died over the weekend at age 94. \u00a0Father Daniel Berrigan was the first priest arrested for peace and anti-war civil disobedience — or holy obedience. \u00a0As recounted in the National Catholic Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Berrigan undoubtedly stands among the most influential American Jesuits of the past century…<\/em><\/p>\n

A literary giant in his own right, Berrigan was best known for his dramatic acts of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. He burned draft files with homemade napalm and later hammered on nuclear weapons to enact the Isaiah prophecy to \u201cbeat swords into plowshares.\u201d His actions challenged Americans and Catholics to reexamine their relationship with the state and reject militarism. He constantly asked himself and others: What does the Gospel demand of us?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, Father Daniel Berrigan is Jesus as a poet,\u201d Kurt Vonnegut wrote. \u201cIf this be heresy, make the most of it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDorothy Day taught me more than all the theologians,\u201d Berrigan told The Nation in 2008. \u201cShe awakened me to connections I had not thought of or been instructed in\u2014the equation of human misery and poverty with warmaking. She had a basic hope that God created the world with enough for everyone, but there was not enough for everyone and warmaking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1963, Berrigan embarked on a year of travel, spending time in France, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rome, South Africa and the Soviet Union. He encountered despair among French Jesuits related to the situation of Indochina, as the United States ramped up military involvement in Vietnam.<\/em><\/p>\n

Berrigan returned home in 1964 convinced that the war in Vietnam \u201ccould only grow worse.\u201d So he began, he later wrote, \u201cas loudly as I could, to say \u2018no\u2019 to the war\u2026. There would be simply no turning back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He co-founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship and the interfaith group Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam…<\/em><\/p>\n

In Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (1966), Merton described Berrigan as \u201can altogether winning and warm intelligence and a man who, I think, has more than anyone I have ever met the true wide-ranging and simple heart of the Jesuit: zeal, compassion, understanding, and uninhibited religious freedom. Just seeing him restores one\u2019s hope in the Church.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A dramatic year of assassinations and protests that shook the conscience of America, 1968 also proved to be a watershed year for Berrigan. In February, he flew to Hanoi, North Vietnam, with the historian Howard Zinn and assisted in the release of three captured U.S. pilots. On their first night in Hanoi, they awoke to an air-raid siren and U.S. bombs and had to find shelter.<\/em><\/p>\n

As the United States continued to escalate the war, Berrigan worried that conventional protests had little chance of influencing government policy. His brother, Philip, then a Josephite priest, had already taken a much greater risk: In October 1967, he broke into a draft board office in Baltimore and poured blood on the draft files.<\/em><\/p>\n

Undeterred at the looming legal consequences, Philip planned another draft board action and invited his younger brother to join him. Daniel agreed.<\/em><\/p>\n

On May 17, 1968, the Berrigan brothers joined seven other Catholic peace activists in Catonsville, Md., where they took several hundreds of draft files from the local draft board and set them on fire in a nearby parking lot, using homemade napalm. Napalm is a flammable liquid that was used extensively by the United States in Vietnam.<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniel said in a statement, \u201cOur apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Berrigan was tried and convicted for the action. When it came time for sentencing, however, he went underground and evaded the Federal Bureau of Investigation for four months.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I would be apprehended eventually,\u201d he told America in an interview in 2009, \u201cbut I wanted to draw attention for as long as possible to the Vietnam War and to Nixon\u2019s ordering military action in Cambodia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The F.B.I. finally apprehended him on Block Island, R.I., at the home of theologian William Stringfellow, in August 1970. He spent 18 months in Danbury federal prison, during which he and Philip appeared on the cover of Time magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

The brothers, lifelong recidivists, were far from finished.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Swords<\/a>On Sept. 9, 1980, Daniel and Philip joined seven others in busting into the General Electric missile plant in King of Prussia, Pa., where they hammered on an unarmed nuclear weapon\u2014the first Plowshares action. They faced 10 years in prison for the action but were sentenced to time served.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his courtroom testimony at the Plowshares trial, Berrigan described his daily confrontation with death as he accompanied the dying at St. Rose Cancer Home in New York City. He said the Plowshares action was connected with this ministry of facing death and struggling against it. In 1984, he began working at St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital, New York City, where he ministered to men and women with H.I.V.-AIDS.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrible for me to live in a time where I have nothing to say to human beings except, \u2018Stop killing,\u2019\u201d he explained at the Plowshares trial. \u201cThere are other beautiful things that I would love to be saying to people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1997 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/em><\/p>\n

Berrigan\u2019s later years were devoted to Scripture study, writing, giving retreats, correspondence with friends and admirers, mentorship of young Jesuits and peace activists, and being an uncle to two generations of Berrigans. He published several biblical commentaries that blended scholarship with pastoral reflection and poetic wit.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBerrigan is evidently incapable of writing a prosaic sentence,\u201d biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann wrote in a review of Berrigan\u2019s Genesis (2006). \u201cHe imitates his creator with his generative word that calls forth linkages and incongruities and opens spaces that bewilder and dazzle and summon the reader.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Even as an octogenarian, Berrigan continued to protest, turning his attention to the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the prison in Guant\u00e1namo Bay and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Friends remember Berrigan as courageous and creative in love, a person of integrity who was willing to pay the price, a beacon of hope and a sensitive and caring friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

While technically, Fr. Berrigan is not a martyr, he sacrificed much and lived courageously in the belly of the beast called the United States of America of which he called its militarism and imperialism.<\/p>\n

While I wrote this poem with a male character, this may not be truly representative of the martyrs in this world. \u00a0Soon after penning this poem, Berta Caceres, whose activism reverberated around the world, was assassinated by a Honduran death squad, shot in her own home. \u00a0This poem is dedicated to her as well, a well of hope deeper than any dam corporations. \u00a0As recounted from Alternet:<\/p>\n

On March 3, assassins entered the home of Berta Caceres, leader of Honduras\u2019 environmental and indigenous movement. They shot her friend Gustavo Castro Soto, the director of Friends of the Earth Mexico. He pretended to be dead, and so is the only witness of what came next. The assassins found Berta Caceres in another room and shot her in the chest, the stomach and the arms. When the assassins left the house, Castro went to Berta Caceres, who died in his arms.<\/em><\/p>\n

Investigation into the death of Berta Caceres is unlikely to be conducted with seriousness. The Honduran government suggested swiftly that it was likely that Castro had killed Berta Caceres and made false statements about assassins. That he had no motive to kill his friend and political ally seemed irrelevant. Castro has taken refuge in the Mexican embassy in Honduras\u2019 capital, Tegucigalpa. He continues to fear for his life.<\/em><\/p>\n

Berta Caceres led the Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH), one of the most important critics of government and corporate power in her country. Most recently, she and COPINH had taken a strong stand against the construction of the Agua Zarca dam on a river sacred to the indigenous Lenca community. This dam had occupied her work. It was not merely a fight against an energy company, it was a fight against the entire Honduran elite.<\/em><\/p>\n

Desarrollos Energeticos, SA (DESA) is owned by the Atala family, whose most famous member is Camilo Atala, who heads Honduras\u2019 largest bank, Banco Ficohsa. By all indications, the Atala family is very close to the government. When the military moved against the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya Rosales in 2009, the Atala family, among others, supported the coup with their means. \"They<\/a>The Honduran sociologist Leticia Salomon listed this family among others as the enablers of the coup. They backed the conservative National Party, which now holds the reins of power alongside the military. Berta Caceres\u2019 fight against the Agua Zarca dam, then, was not merely a fight against one dam. It was a battle against the entire Honduran oligarchy. Her assassination had, as her family contends, been long overdue.<\/em><\/p>\n

May we be inspired and encouraged by the fearless lives of those who have gone before us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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