Thankful for the Difference (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Stopping in our worship offering up a praise a thanksgiving for our freedom thankful for the difference what we take ...
Stopping in our worship offering up a praise a thanksgiving for our freedom thankful for the difference what we take ...
Happy to consider the profound difference the freedoms we cherish to pray for their struggle to shake off the yoke ...
The chill of their lies buying time to regroup to fend off the people to abduct them in the night ...
Murderer's marauders henchmen of the madman holding on to power by silencing the opposition Stealing the people from their own ...
Willing to crush the people to brutalize the nation to bomb the cities and take them in the night The ...
Sitting down with evil pure oppression willing to crush resistance to silence other voices Sitting down with evil Like Goebbels ...
Sitting down with evil giving lies a stage complicit in their propaganda giving voice to their rage The opiate of ...
The ghosts of the protests those yearning for freedom those who stood up after prayers going into the streets stealing ...
The protest made silence stealing them in the night removing the courageous from their homes at night Ghosts of the ...
The removal of the martyrs the abductions in the night the protests made silent by the terror in the street ...
Invisible martyrs taken in the night removed from the streets taken from our sight The madman, the strongman holding onto ...
Fear for the innocents wanting to be free under the boot of the tyrant not at liberty What must they ...
Do the martyrs those who have fallen the innocents in the square, the street yearning for their freedom Do they ...
Do they hear their cries steeling them to action do the people hear the cries the cries of the martyrs ...
Firing on the innocents gunning down the protesters coming from the time of prayers into the Square of the Martyrs ...
Wondering, half a world away what they must be going through coming out of prayers into the square into the ...
More than metaphorical The tyrant firing on the people rubber bullets, ammunition tear gas on his people Coming from prayers ...
In the beginning of our nation the bands of Minutemen, rebels the opposition of tyranny rising in the colonies We ...
We must stand with them not be duped by the madman convinced to label them as rebels when they are ...
What will happen this Friday in that land when the mosques empty the people done with their prayers will the ...
All of us needing to join them in prayer all of the people praying near the squares No matter our ...
In the coming of Friday prayers for the whole region especially for Libya that the blood of the martyrs would ...
The story of the people of us down to this age of rebellion and revolt of endlessly going astray Failing ...
A groundswell, a crack in the dyke seeds of revolt, in their words, their resolve Unwilling to be silent, to ...
A higher authority gave them a charge for them they would not silence Proclaiming his name, healing in his mighty ...
Reaping the Whirlwind, the story of man from the fall of Adam, the revolt in Cain and Abel, the bickering ...
The page opens to snow on a field: boot-holed month, black hour the bottle in your coat half voda half ...
A frightening stillness will mark that day And the shadow of streetlights and fire-alarms will exhaust the light All things, ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
up or down from the infinite C E N T E R B R I M M I N G ...
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