I am never too distraught when it comes to
someone's death from war especially people I never knew. I've never been very good at suffering
through funerals. I have seen death in
many faces and have escaped from him
several times, but I have never welcomed him. I have never been obsessed by death or summoned his presence for myself or anyone else.
I have never considered my death as a means
of protest. I have always valued my life
highly and the lives of others. Here in
Connecticut, the capital city of Hartford
has had 14 murders so far this year.
All from gang related shootings and
drivebys. I have not attended one of
the funerals nor have I sent a sympathy
card to the parents of the children murdered. I did not know them. I do
not live in Hartford, I seldom ever visit
Hartford, but I often think of Hartford
at least 14 times this year alone when
each murder was reported in the news.
Each time I shook my head in disbelief and ask myself what is going on and why can't the police
stop these murders. Why can't someone
stop these murders and suicide bombings and wars? Then I realize they can not be
stopped, they must continue it is the
way of this world. Murder and mayham
disease and devastation, poverty, famine,
genocide, injustice, sorrow and pain.
They are the way of this world and a part of
the human experience.
I
I must visit Hartford if I wish to understand what is happening there.
I must visit Iraq and Palestine and
Darfur and the Congo and all places
where death stalks those who live there.
But I dare not now for I am very busy.
I am so busy being busy at busy things
that I will probably never get a chance
to visit these places. Maybe I will send
a card to all these victims families. But
if I did that I would have to send millions
of cards at least thousands each day. That would be far too expensive and
time consuming a task for one man to
undertake alone. So I have decided to
shake my head and say why can't someone stop the killings in Hartford,
Iraq and Palestine, Darfur and the Congo.
Why can't someone stop these killings?
I can not stop them, I do not know how to,
maybe no one does and that is why it
continues. I can think of no way to stop
or prevent these killings unless those
who are doing the killing no longer have
a reason to kill or have all been killed
themselves. The solution is in the eternal
circle but someone must break the line,
step outside the circle's barrier, to end
the circle of violence and murder, and
create for all a new line to follow upward
and outward towards infinity, forever embracing
peace, love and the onward ascent of mankind towards the purest enlightenment.