PAX POPULI
The People’s Peace
Is it enough?
Will it be enough?
Will my outrage, my anguish be enough?
If I cannot speak
These words they spill out
If I cannot speak
My heart spills out
I am but, so far away
While my people bleed
Die, fade so far away..
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.” ~ George Orwell, 1984
1 month and 1 week counting.
There is no talk of peace, reconciliation. Or at least none than can be seen. Instead this.
“… the negotiated settlement is basically a theoretical construct, given the levels of actively provoked hatred, given the kind of polarizing politics has been part of the state’s politics, particulary over the last few years…
polarized politics becomes the most important mobilizer and consequently hate speech and you know this kind of mobilization through hatred becomes the most visible index of what is going on..” ~ Ajay Isani, Executive Director, The Institute of Conflict Management
https://youtu.be/gIoxW-nCV_Q
How can there be peace, when all you speak of is hate?
I say,
Just me
In this world
You see
I am just me
Alone
Just me
A parody
Some say I am she
Half breed
Half a piece
Half of he
Just an apostrophe
So why be
Why the agony
Why be
And not simply agree
Why be?
But I cannot
Just be
An absentee
Voiceless
Duty free
I am she
I am more than just me
I am we
All of humanity
I am he
And me
And we
All us,
Unity.
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