Christopher Hansard:[Some Say]

Some say that Nelson Mandela

is a terrorist turned Statesman and Hero,

Others say that

the Dalai Lama is a Hero turned Terrorist

it all depends upon your point of view

and your belief in circumstance

and the political agenda created by

the forces of Existence and the urge to survive

Some say that Barrack Obama is a muslim

and that all politicians are liars and war mongers

We have lived in the time of the appeased middle class

a false state, an invention of nineteenth century

politics that took full root in the last century

but hungry capitalism like hungry communism

will not last the morning, in the full day of history

everyone is an expert today

because they can throw their opinions

into a global whirlpool of information

we live in a time when opinion is regarded as truth

and that certainty is a result of economy and wealth

we need to not believe the things our fear holds us too

in the quiet places of the world

wisdom is moving

stirring

waking up

stop

feel it

tune into

the place where true communication

begins and stops

some say that all muslims are warmongers

some say that all christians are warmongers

some say that all jews are warmongers

words are the warmongers

when the communication

is violent

long before the actions start

the first bullet is fired by a word

well before the trigger is ever pulled

some say that love is for dreamers

but dreamers teach the world to dream

and so to imagine and from that

comes the actions of change

and transformation

any word of violence

creates misery

it will hang around you

like a perfume made from the rotting corpses

of a war zone, an earthquake

or the lingering cancers of gossip

stop, call the stillness within

awaken the love

ask for forgiveness

give thanks and gratitude

and the world

becomes a larger place

and every possibility

a choice for action and

ready to become an event