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The Archer
The Archer by kmlsIn the high sea of clouds,
in willowing wisps of white,
an evil lurks.
The winds of the world bring
the first whisper of change,
an alien thing.
A dragon.
Red as blood, gleaming darkness,
its armor, invincible?
Heavy metal talons, drooling jaws,
acid falling, burning earth below.
It screams through the sky,
wings creaking, flapping furiously,
breathing flame.
Men flee,
like tiny ants scurrying
from desecration
into it.
Only One holds his ground,
a bow and one arrow
in his hand.
The Prince awaits,
as if to allow the dragon to
devour him.
Then with a flash,
he looses his arrow.
It soars through the air.
Blood gushing,
the dart buried deep,
the dragon crashes to the ground.
Landing on the One.
From amongst the dragon’s corpse,
amidst dying coals and wisps of smoke,
a figure crawls,
stands.
It is the Archer,
the One,
Him.From the collection “Words at 16 (1983)”
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A Day for the World to Say Sorry
From Australia’s National Sorry Day Toward an International Day of Truth, Repentance, and Repair
A PeaceGrooves Reflection
There are words so overused that they risk becoming weightless. Sorry is one of them. We say it when we bump into someone in a hallway, when we answer an email too late, when we make an insignificant mistake. Yet there are times when sorry is not small at all. There are wounds so deep, so deliberately inflicted, and so long denied that the speaking of sorrow becomes an act of public truth.
Australia’s National Sorry Day, observed each year on May 26, is such a day. It remembers the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their families, communities, languages, and cultures under government policies now associated with the Stolen Generations. The date marks the anniversary of the 1997 tabling of the Bringing Them Home report, the landmark national inquiry that gathered testimony from survivors and documented the devastation caused by these removals. The report called not only for recognition of what had happened, but for apology, healing, reparations, family reunion, access to records, and measures ensuring such violations would never recur.
National Sorry Day did not begin as a sentimental holiday….
Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.
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