Home Actress Lisa Ray Instagram Photos and Posts – February 2021 Lisa Ray Instagram - Now reading. (The recurring thought: ‘will I ever write this well, with such precision and clarity’ is not impeding my experience) #homelandelegies #AyadAkhtar

Lisa Ray Instagram – Now reading. (The recurring thought: ‘will I ever write this well, with such precision and clarity’ is not impeding my experience) #homelandelegies #AyadAkhtar

Lisa Ray Instagram - Now reading. (The recurring thought: ‘will I ever write this well, with such precision and clarity’ is not impeding my experience) #homelandelegies #AyadAkhtar

Lisa Ray Instagram – Now reading. (The recurring thought: ‘will I ever write this well, with such precision and clarity’ is not impeding my experience)
#homelandelegies #AyadAkhtar | Posted on 26/Feb/2021 07:36:14

Lisa Ray Instagram – We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us
It is possible and imperative that we learn
A brave and startling truth

And when we come to it
To the day of peacemaking
When we release our fingers
From fists of hostility
And allow the pure air to cool our palms

When we come to it
When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate
And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean
When battlefields and coliseum
No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters
Up with the bruised and bloody grass
To lie in identical plots in foreign soil

When we come to it
When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders
And children dress their dolls in flags of truce
When land mines of death have been removed
And the aged can walk into evenings of peace
When religious ritual is not perfumed
By the incense of burning flesh
And childhood dreams are not kicked awake
By nightmares of abuse

When we come to it
We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe
Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger
Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace
We, this people on this mote of matter
In whose mouths abide cankerous words
Which challenge our very existence
Yet out of those same mouths
Come songs of such exquisite sweetness
That the heart falters in its labor
And the body is quieted into awe

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet
Whose hands can strike with such abandon
That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living
Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness
That the haughty neck is happy to bow
And the proud back is glad to bend
Out of such chaos, of such contradiction
We learn that we are neither devils nor divines

When we come to it
We, this people, on this wayward, floating body
Created on this earth, of this earth
Have the power to fashion for this earth
A climate where every man and every woman
Can live freely without sanctimonious piety
Without crippling fear

-Maya Angelou (condensed and edited)

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