We share a breath of all things dark, In this our time of loss, With sadness spent, With silence, Still,
A tempered thought for those whose warmth will never more find light,
The laughter of their day, The beauty of their night,
As we are left alone to work the soil of our unrest,
Fill, fold the world with love in honour of their life be blessed.
Another yields their life in terrifying and violent action. Their belief is that their sacrifice is imperative for those who remain, and that through loosing their life they will be rewarded in a higher place. They view their goal as morally irrefutable, and that any method of achieving it is ethically acceptable.
Life is our most precious gift. I do not hold the ends justifies the means. Our greatest strength against bloodshed and brutality is to meet it with relentless and overwhelming resistance, peacefully.
My ninety eight year old aunt who arrived in England in 1948 and who worked in the country as a school teacher all her life, told me she is worried she may be asked to leave. She, like many who reached these shores to make a home, is fearful for her future.
My voice is in the service of the disadvantaged, the exploited, the underprivileged, the unloved. Art is the treasury of our best and worst, but perhaps art's greatest value is that it can lead to change.
William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.