{"id":2734,"date":"2017-06-22T10:51:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2017-06-22T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:51:25","slug":"poem-a-world-worth-fighting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/poem-a-world-worth-fighting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: A World Worth Fighting For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Once agin<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>His eyes went<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Threw me<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Populating lonely<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A whirled<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of perpetrators and victims<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Bad asses and good ass<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of which I was won<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Haunted by wonder<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In what kind<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of world<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Would we halve<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Been friends<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Now that is<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A world worth<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Fighting for<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a world flush with partisan rancoring and polarized perspectives, it is easy to pay know tension to each other&#8217;s humanity, often valuing each other less than common ground. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Peace\/Who-is-a-hero-He-who-turns-his-enemy-into-a-friend-The-Talmud-quote.gif\" alt=\"Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend. The Talmud quote PEACE BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"173\" \/>In a world wear the lyin&#8217; between winners and losers is sharply drawn, like an unbrakable sored, we risk a fate worse than deaf. \u00a0When we are effaced with the phallus choice forced upon us between perpetrators and victims, there peers no amor culpable of shielding us in what is right or left, split in two, halves and have nots. \u00a0The flush harbor in their stately effluence of fauxs. \u00a0Oar their wins carry them aweigh, atop endless serfs and bounteous fleeting vassals.<\/p>\n<p>Can one side fit awe?<a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Peace\/Buttons\/Peace-One-Side-Fits-All-Peace-Dove-PEACE-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/ProductImages\/peace_anti_war_political_public_health_pictures\/Peace_-_One_Side_Fits_All.gif\" alt=\"Peace - One Side Fits All - Peace Dove - PEACE BUTTON\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Peace-Signs\/Buttons\/Courage-to-Stand-Up-and-Sit-Down-Listen-PEACE-QUOTE-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/toppun.com\/Great-Quotes\/Peace-Quotes\/Peace-Quote-25.gif\" alt=\"Courage to Stand Up and Sit Down Listen - PEACE QUOTE BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>Can we engender enough solidarity and courage to make peace? \u00a0What does fighting for won an other&#8217;s humanity look like? \u00a0Who knows, perhaps the genuine struggle to answer such questions in our living and dying may very well be what makes this a world worth fighting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once agin His eyes went Threw me Populating lonely A whirled Of perpetrators and victims Bad asses and good ass Of which I was won Haunted by wonder In what kind Of world Would we halve Been friends Now that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/poem-a-world-worth-fighting-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56,9,15],"tags":[294,198,305,740,658,94,544,260,279],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-peace-signs","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-awe","tag-courage","tag-humanity","tag-partisan","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-questions","tag-risk","tag-solidarity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: A World Worth Fighting For | Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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