... I'd listen
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I'd give my possessions and my friendship
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would mind the gap between household and nation
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I'd give my lovingkindness one more time to 'the
undeserving'
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would love those who love me
... I would love those who don't love me well
... I would love those who don't love me at all
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would close my lips to argument
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would give my lunch to one waiting on a paycheck
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would work an extra shift so someone could travel the world
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I'd give my patience to that one annoying person
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would encourage those who encourage
If I could do one revolutionary act today
... I would ask my neighbor 'how are you eating?'
If I were the revolution today
... I would be the peace meal of a slain people, shared between the survivors
and the killers in places like Rwanda, in Israel/Palestine and in the Americas
If I were the revolution today
... I would be the extended hand, no matter how different
If I were the revolution today
... hanging in bedrooms of palaces and white houses of power I'd be the
dreamcatcher retelling the nightmares of suffering in labor camps, sweatshops,
prisons, deserted places of empire and the ghettos of wealth
If I were the revolution today
... I'd be the change of mind in the deathdealer to give living a second try
If I were the revolution today
... I'd be the renovated structure of sex trafficking and drug peddling turned
organism of food gardens and no cost housing where 'the haves' and 'the have
nots' find a common rhythm to live by
If I were the revolution today
... I'd be the pulse of the doctor who practices medicine among those who will
never be able to pay the bill
If I were the revolution today
... I'd be the better world maker's thoughts spray painted in the sky so
empires won't crush their heart with a dream no one can afford
Today
... someone will forgive regardless of the wrongdoing
... someone will leave a soon to be dead life behind for a resurrected now
... an unwanted child will be taken from the trashlands and raised to birth
love
... a peacemaker will leave a fresh change of heart for an angry mob to clothe
their nakedness with
... someone will lay down the way of the gun for the fruits of the Spirit
... a household will harbor refugees
... a family will have enough food to share with their hungry neighbor
... an addict will be released from their chains
... someone will throw a birthday party for a prostitute
... prisoners will bless a cruel guard
... someone will sing jubilantly of another world ripening in the face of the
emperor's sickle
... an aged and dying person will be cared for and instilled with dignity until
their last exhale
... a hopeless leader will see a way of peace and hope thriving in the lives of
obscure and
weak people
-Leland Grammar
San Diego, USA
AIM 2005
San Diego, USA
AIM 2005
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