Just as I can't forgive the US / For atrocities committed /Over the last 250 years./I am only responsible / For my own heart and soul.

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I will never forgive you Israel

For what you did to Gaza.

Such forgiveness will fall

To the generations that

Survive into what happens next,

Just as I can't forgive the US

For atrocities committed

Over the last 250 years.

I am only responsible

For my own heart and soul.

I trust that there are

Quite a few of you

Who feel profoundly betrayed

But who will find a path

That will lead away from the edge,

But hope may remain elusive

Because there will always be more of you

Who will sleep easy like babes

In the arms of fascists and their generals.

But, lucky you,

Hope springs eternal

In the eyes of babies yet to be born.

Perhaps this is your Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A wake-up to your karmic shadow.

The United States helped you

Because this country is just as lost as you.

Don't do what we did -

Don't whitewash history.

You can't set out to destroy a people

And bury them in the rubble of their towns

Without taking on a debt of servitude

To the rehabilitation of the world-soul

Which is more vulnerable than we think,

And in need of selfless love.

Only prayer can help right now,

Yours and ours and theirs,

The prayers of those who

Are picking up the shining threads

Of the broken world.

(Article changed on Jan 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM EST)

Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.