Beautiful poem! I really love this line because I think this is where we often go wrong in this day and age: "We can't have freedom without the suffering of another." Never has a more false and damaging idea entered into human discourse. We don't have to make others suffer in order for us to prosper and have freedom! You say it just perfectly in the last stanza:
So please,
presidents, plutocrats, and politicians
CEOs, economists, and statisticians
on this day, and all the others,
let us not
pontificate
obliterate
proliferate
but instead
cooperate
Let us not drown our dreams in endless war,
but find a better freedom to be thankful for.
(Just beautiful. Peace and freedom to you and everyone!)
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Beautiful poem! I really love this line because I think this is where we often go wrong in this day and age: "We can't have freedom without the suffering of another." Never has a more false and damaging idea entered into human discourse. We don't have to make others suffer in order for us to prosper and have freedom! You say it just perfectly in the last stanza:
So please,
presidents, plutocrats, and politicians
CEOs, economists, and statisticians
on this day, and all the others,
let us not
pontificate
obliterate
proliferate
but instead
cooperate
Let us not drown our dreams in endless war,
but find a better freedom to be thankful for.
(Just beautiful. Peace and freedom to you and everyone!)
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