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The One Who Sustains

January 18, 2011
By SarahDoody SILVER, Hunting Valley, Ohio
SarahDoody SILVER, Hunting Valley, Ohio
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When people decide who lives and who dies,
(medicine)

When people decide who’s remembered and who’s forgotten,
(books)

When people decide who becomes rich and who becomes poor,
(banks)

When people decide who’s to blame who’s set free,
(judge)

When people decide what to fix and what to ignore,
(government)

When people decide when to start a war and when to end it,
(military)

When people decide what do we create?
(peace?)
(harmony?)
(justice?)
Conflict. Repression. Death. Extermination.

When nature decides?
(conflict?)
(repression?)
(death?)
(extermination?)
Peace. Harmony. Justice.


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