File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0010, message 188


Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:36:56 -0500
From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespass-AT-swbell.net>
Subject: Re: your mail


At 02:16 PM 10/19/00 -0500, danceswithcarp wrote:


>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mike Pugsley wrote:
>
> > So what does everyone think about the 'conflict' in Israel?
>
>
>I think Israel is one of the most oppressive states on the planet.

<snip>

>I think if I was there i'd be looking for something bigger than a rock.


Yeah, seems like Israel learned all sorts of lessons from their role models 
the Nazi's.

Barring the ability to do anything else, I wrote a poem about Muhammad 
al-Durra the dangerous 12-yr old murdered by Israeli soldiers in front of a 
french cameraman (thanks Goat, I couldn't close my eyes for three days 
without seeing that replay in my mind).  Apparently the poem sucks, or at 
least that's the response I've gotten, I can't tell yet (emotionally 
written poems are always difficult for me to judge).


Hello Muhammad,
I'd like to tell you a little about your history,
so you can understand what's happened to you.

Our universe started about fifteen billion years ago,
Who started it and how I don't know,
but many believe in a cosmic designer and thank it (and should).
Now, for the first million years or so,
things are cooling from the initial spark,
and the building blocks of matter start to form
stretched out in vast clouds of gas.
Little by little, hydrogen and helium atoms
are attracted to each other by gravitation.
They come closer and closer,
increasing pressure, increasing in temperature,
until finally they fuse in a blinding spark.
And a star is born.
Maybe this star will live for a billion years or more,
combining hydrogen heavier atoms,
until finally, it dies and casts off nearly half its mass,
to float in space, waiting to join with other gas and particles,
to create a new star and possibly planets.
This is how our solar system started,
with our Sun lighting about five billion years ago.
Surrounding it, the planets started to accrue out of collisions,
of the dust circling the Sun.

Think of it, it took the universe (and its creator)
over eleven billion years to create our Earth and its Sun.
But we can't stop there because life appears a billion years
after the Earth, and it takes another two billion to start
becoming complex. Fourteen billion years of effort for microbes!
Continuing, it takes another billion years
for plant and animal life to become recognizable!
We must continue along evolution (guided or not),
until only four million years ago, when we can start
to recognize our ancestors.

Somewhere in this time, in some Eden,
Man became self aware, aware of right and wrong,
good and bad, power and weakness,
and this awareness split us all in two.
For within every grouping, some of us are guided by
more by creative impulses and some by destructive,
and as we age, we bound from one to the other,
until finally finding our own place on that scale.

Muhammad, think of it, fifteen billion years,
the effort of stars and atoms ,
and countless forms of life,
just to achieve you,
to offer you the chance of being
an integral link in this miraculous march.

And some fool with a gun,
obeying the hate and greed of other fools,
cut all this short.

We waited fifteen billion years to see what you'd
become.
Fifteen billion years,
and you barely got twelve years in,
not even time enough to find your place.
All because in this wonderful universe,
that struggled to create you,
someone thought that your way of celebrating it,
was wrong.


cheers,
scott
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