☀️ The Daily Boost #927

If we knew we could turn

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Boy playing hoop rolling in DRC

IF
Imtiaz Dharker

If we could pray. If 
we could say we have come here
together, to grow into a tree,
if we could see our blue hands
holding up the moon, and hear
how small the sound is
when it slips through 
our fingers into water,
when the meaning of words melts
away and sugarcane speaks
in fields more clearly
than our tongues,
when a child takes 
a stick as long as itself

and rolls a wheel
down a lane on wings of dust,
in control, would we 
think then that we should thank
someone? If we knew
we could turn, and turning
feel that things could be different.
But we are unused 
to gratitude, if we could lose 
our pride, bend down
look for peace on the iron
ground. If we could

kneel.


(from The Terrorist at My Table)

(My thanks to Imtiaz Dharker, via The Slowdown.)

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