Through Time and Place

War, peace, etc.

 

Through Time and Place

 

 

The sun rises in pink and orange, and sets the same

in every city, island or town.

Yet each rising or setting

is always singular and new

for each day and each place

 

We see our world

through time and place,

and often live

as if omniscient,

as if all culture

and history

were universal.

 

I rise each day

with troubles looming —

an extended forecast of doom,

as if the world’s reservoirs of kindness

are near to drying,

the world’s patience undone.

Yet the sun rises and sets

with serene beauty

on uncounted days,

in places near and far,

like ours, and so different.

 

The capacity to create hate,

to forge misunderstanding,

has followed us

from Babylon’s Babel

to countless troubles,

intifadas, insurgencies,

retaliations and so-called wars.

 

The capacity to create love,

to speak, listen and hear

beyond our own place and time,

and make true contact,

is not so simply advanced,

but must be practiced

with each cycle of the sun.     

 

                             

                              March 2003

                    

                             

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