Think about this ~ and digest it! Im at a loss for words... I just watched a clip of the devastation being wrought in the Holy Land. I watched as a Palestinian family having a picnic at the beach was suddenly & without warning... blow up by an Israeli war ship a few hundred yards off the coast. I saw with my own eyes, an 8 year old girl clutching the blown apart body of her 5 siblings, of her mother & father... & something in her soul shattering screams made my whole being convulse into full-bodied-tears... What kind of a world is this where such atrocities can be conducted in broad daylight & without the full condemnation of the global public?! As a poet I use my words to turn pain into beauty, darkness into light, tragedy into treasure, but how can I convert this imagery into something good? I used to speak throughout the middle east as an ambassador of aloha, below is a video of me doing just that in Palestine on the border with Israel, in a peace gathering that held Palestinians & Israelis, & Germans & others together in the name of our common humanity. Being half Palestinian & Half Cherokee has been an intense experience, & Im not sure how to feel about what is happening in Palestine & Israel right now... my heart weeps with grief for the children who are being literally shot to pieces with bullets the size of cannon balls! I have so many family member RIGHT NOW including my own siblings & parents who are being imminently threatened by this instability, my own flesh & blood who have to hide in bomb shelters in fear of being killed. From Mauis pristine shores its difficult for me to imagine their experience fully, except when I remember what it was like to live there with them so long ago, but now WE the CONSCIOUS people of the planet Earth MUST do & say whatever is necessary to end this violence. Palestinians & Israelis are siblings, both born of Abraham, both inherited to the promised land... both are Semitic, separated by only the smallest of linguistic & cultural differences. I have Israeli friends who have been so kind to me, & who want peace... & I have a personal stake in wanting my own family to live & not be killed... but despite everything, despite all the blood shed & tears I KNOW that it is still possible to have peace... but how? What else can we do together to make this old paradigm of war come to an end? I only have these words to offer & this sincere desire to see something beautiful come from all this... This is my living example of compassion in action, may it inspire us all to step into our fullness in the face of certain danger & stand up for what is right & beautiful! LOVE without conditions!
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 05:10:49 +0000
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