As the
new year gets up and running and all the talk is of struggle and
fighting, we should never forget why we are fighting. It is not for
the love of struggle and fight, it is not for power and wealth, it
is because of love and a desire to create a world where such
beautiful flowers as justice, peace and love, bloom in the fertile
soil of co-operation, so we can live in a world free from the fear of
deprivation. We wish to create a world where the gentle can live and
grow.
THERE ARE MEN TOO GENTLE TO LIVE
AMONG WOLVES
Poem by James Kavanaugh
There are men too gentle to live among wolves
Who prey upon them with IBM eyes
And sell their hearts and guts for martinis at noon.
There are men too gentle for a savage world
Who dream instead of snow and children and Halloween
And wonder if the leaves will change their color soon.
There are men too gentle to live among wolves
Who anoint them for burial with greedy claws
And murder then for a merchant's profit and gain.
There are men too gentle for a corporate world
Who dream instead of candied apples and ferris wheels
And pause to hear the distant whistle of a train.
There are men too gentle to live among wolves.
Who devour them with eager appetite and search
For other men to prey upon and suck their childhood dry.
There are men too gentle for an accountant's world
Who dream instead of Easter eggs and fragrant grass
And search for beauty in the mystery of the sky.
There are men too gentle to live among wolves
Who toss them like a lost and wounded dove.
Such gentle men are lonely in a merchant's world.
Unless they have a gentle one to love.
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