Choosing Our Friends (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the mirror of time the prism of justice the sun shining upon us cutting through the darkness oppression and ...
In the mirror of time the prism of justice the sun shining upon us cutting through the darkness oppression and ...
True sacrifice in the human sense is given it is not imposed the first is righteousness the latter is suffering ...
A prayer for peace for the taste of true freedom for peace in the Maghreb for all its neighbors for ...
All across the region people rising standing against the tyrants yearning for freedom The cry for change organic, sweeping moving ...
Into the teeth of the lion into the fist of the madman the world handing the innocents over to the ...
The struggle for freedom cloaked in his repression the protesters taken away abducted in the night The people fearful hearing ...
Happy to consider the profound difference the freedoms we cherish to pray for their struggle to shake off the yoke ...
Murderer's marauders henchmen of the madman holding on to power by silencing the opposition Stealing the people from their own ...
The ghosts of the protests those yearning for freedom those who stood up after prayers going into the streets stealing ...
The removal of the martyrs the abductions in the night the protests made silent by the terror in the street ...
Fear for the innocents wanting to be free under the boot of the tyrant not at liberty What must 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 ...
In the coming of Friday prayers for the whole region especially for Libya that the blood of the martyrs would ...
His strident language threats to his people willing to go house to house to root out their freedom The harsh ...
Weeping for these people our neighbors in the streets crying for the people dying for their freedoms standing before tyrants ...
The blood of the people to be spilt by the tyrant raining down from heaven onto the earth Unwilling to ...
The world watching needing to speak to act in justice to protect the meek Madness on the stage personified in ...
Not in the past when he walked the earth feeling him with us in this walk of life Loving as ...
No longer right to use polite speech time to deny the tyrant more minutes on stage Speaking more plainly without ...
The Command of Jesus from the beginning of the law to love our neighbors to love others as ourselves Christ ...
Our neighbors in the street the tyrant on the throne stand against the tyrants speaking openly Stand with the people ...
The sons and daughters parents and others standing together to fight for their freedom Facing the tyrants their power, their ...
When they cried out for freedom marching in protest retribution from the madman denying them human rights The people only ...
The carnage in streets even overwhelming the militaries the troops often turning caring for the people Country after country wondering ...
For those standing marching against the tyrants heading for his palace unafraid of his rage A prayer for those marching ...
All of us called to love our neighbors our enemies covered wrapped in love Needing to speak to cry out, ...
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