I know how much the pain of this world weighs but I can still tip the scales in light's direction whenever I have your name on my tongue. - Andrea Gibson

Somebody pray for the soldiers.
Somebody pray for what's lost.
Somebody pray for the mailbox
that holds the official letters
to the mothers, fathers,
sisters and little brothers
of Michael 19... Steven 21... John 33.
How ironic that their deaths sound like bible verses.

Ever feel like the best of you is something you're still hoping to grow into?

I stopped calling myself a pacifist when I heard Gandhi told women they should not physically fight off their rapists. I believe there is such a thing as a nonviolent fist.