I'll Stand By You (The Pretenders)
(In Protest of the use of explosives for terrorism)
Paris, France. Wednesday September 17, 1986 Tati Discount Department Store 3:28 pm
Blast. 53 wounded 5 dead mothers and children.
The report of a one hundred and five millimeter recoilless rifle
echoes through Big Cottonwood Canyon of
The Wasatch National Forest of Utah
gently awakening avalanches
rumbling through snowfields
above the timberline
of a sleeping Brighton and Solitude mountain sides
snow shifting, sliding, slicing, slamming, snapping
down among hundreds of year old pines.
We all wish for change and a shift in the world and its vitriol. Where did it take such an ugly turn toward hate speech, hatred and violence. Call me a tree hugger, who cares about the little people and the little countries and populations and refugees that are being starved, slaughtered and persecuted. There must be a shift in the world and it cannot be violence. It really has never been an impetus for great change. My belief is if you want change, change yourself and the world around you. It is easy to say this because I am not suffering great oppression nor am I persecuted. I understand the need for retribution if you watch your children, grand parents, wife, son, daughter or neighbor being slaughtered raped or stolen. It would motivate me to want revenge. How do you change World Consciousness?
You do Not Allow Individuals like Donald Trump to become President of the United States of America to start with. If what he and his party is truly putting forward is Project 2025 there is something seriously wrong with their thinking and being. We must have a serious Cultural Revolution. I call it Our Great American Glow Up. Who knows if we are successful maybe the World will get on board. I write because I had a Professor that told me to Write A Poem About It. She Loved Poetry and Prose and passed that love on down to me. So I once again call for everyone to join me in my Cultural Revolution and create Art, any Art, Poems, Stories, Novels, Songs, Paintings for the Olympics these and future ones. We don't have to Accept People like Mr. Caligula (Donald Trump) and his Minions in our lives and especially not in MY America. I love it and refuse to leave it. If you question my love for it read my poems, stories, and free thought ramblings.
Once again I ask all Children to Join Me in Creating A Change. My Goal is to see if One Person with a Desire to Alter The Course Of Present Day History Can Accomplish It. When my Revolution is Finished, We will be Operating a Healing Arts and Equine Rescue Ranch in Smowmass, Colorado, at a 3700 Acre Former St Benedict's Monastery, where People from Across The World Can Come and Touch Horses and Heal Themselves. Please Join Me! After you have used your Talk Boxes, Watch Boxes And Think Boxes, to repost these posts, set them down and create a World we can all live peacefully and joyfully in!
Joseph Elijo