‘The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice’. Martin Luther King Jr
The world is broken and tired and sad
Paralysed on the edge of a cliff.
And I am small and hurting.
And the aching is quiet and deep.
But the blood still pumps thick through my veins
And the air in my lungs is fire
Throw your money into the furnace
For I’m small and alive in the wind.
I will angry stamp till the puddles run red
until my feet are worn out and thin
I will scream to the wind till you cut out my throat
I will watch and I won’t close my eyes.
I will hold on to the sun till my fingers burn
I will grieve with each loss and each hurt
I will cry oceans and rivers until
I am nothing but shrivelled bones.
I will walk till I get to the end of the world
I will dance till I run out of room
And I will love with my toes and my knees and my soul
and my kidneys and liver and spleen.
For I’ve poured my heart into the river;
I’m dissolved and I’m bound and I’m free
Tied to the beating pulse of the current
I will sing as I flow to the sea.
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Chrissy blogs over at Falling in love with the world.
jasongoroncy.com 
Who IS Chrissy Hamill? I can’t find anything about her (him?) on the Net.
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She’s the eldest amazing daughter of the Rev Dr Bruce.
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Ah, a LOCAL poet, even! Has she published anything bookwise?
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@Mike: not that I’m aware of, though the ODT did publish one of her prose pieces some time back. Which reminds me, I must post a wee piece by Moltmann on youth’s passion for justice and it’s implications for eschatological imagination.
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Go on then…I can’t see the connection between the two, but it’ll be interesting to see if there is one!
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If you google ‘flexifirehead’ Mike you’ll find her blog
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Thanks, Bruce…and more of her poetry there… great!
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“Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat”
Robert Frost.
Well written, Chrissy. Interesting title!
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BTW: Apropos to the spirit of Chrissy’s poem, Jason Clark has posted this great quote from Augustine: ‘Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are’. (Cited in Robert McAfee Brown, Spirituality and Liberation: Overcoming the Great Fallacy, 1988, p. 136)
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Nice Augustine quote… I don’t recall ever coming across that before.
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@Bruce: Yeah, but it’d be no easy task being Hope’s husband!
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brilliant!
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I am one step ahead of Hope. I have three beautiful, strong daughters. And my husband and son realise how fortunate they are! If they forget they are reminded very quickly.
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