The Better Story: How Now Do We Live?
~Joshua Luke Smith
"Do you believe Beauty
can save the world?
That the stories told
within those trenches
were more powerful in
the hands of the soldiers
than their weapons?
And do you want to
starve out the madness
and restore
man's appetite
for sanity?
Do you want to come back
to clarity and conviction?
Do you want to build a society
on the foundations of wisdom
instead of self-serving ambition?
Well then plant a garden,
plant a garden in Babylon.
Bury your seeds in the soil
that you battled against for so long
because this is the only world
to which you will ever belong.
So turn your Exile into Eden and turn
turn your sorrow into a song.
Turn your rejection into the birth pains
of restoration, from your frustration,
the potential of growth, pull from your
suffering a morsel of Hope and forgive
your captors, forgive the ones that made
you bleed let them go.
For it is time for us to build,
no it is time for us to sew,
no it is time for us to
become the seed,
to live in proximity,
to lay our lives down
so that others one day can
simply breathe.
Empty the bonds in which
you've stolen.
Build a bigger table, invite
your enemies over for dinner
and open up your doors.
Love your neighbors like you
love yourself and love yourself
like you love your neighbours.
And for the love of God
remember the poor,
remember the poor
remember the poor.
Sweep your streets
like your paving gold
because in reality
you are.
How you do anything
is how you do everything.
Make your stand
against injustice loud.
No, make it deafening.."
~Joshua Luke Smith
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