Today I can not kill a man or woman <br />900 on a boat with children can be barely grasped <br />Six million require much stronger medications <br />Than I have prescribed. <br />Do you not know? <br />'The only good Indian is a dead Indian.' <br />Davy Crockett disagrees. <br />Pol Pot understands. <br />Joe Stalin smiles in agreement. <br />So where has this evil gone? <br />Oh, you think it is only a point. <br />Just all that race stuff of Hitler and the Nazis <br />and thirteen legions of accomplices. <br />How do we bend the tree from Homer to Plato? <br />How do we bring Nietzsche home for dinner? <br />A wise priest whose name is lost gives one formula: <br />'See Jesus in every shit head.' <br />A little too coarse? <br />How about the sign in the Amish store: <br />'Kindness Matters' - a little too simple? <br />If molecules were to see a vision and mutiny <br />Perhaps Albert Schweitzer's 'Reverence for Life' <br />Could be the manifesto? <br />Perhaps Mahatma Gandhi could be more like beacon than name? <br />Perhaps the scriptures could give us <br />Something of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's courage? <br />I can not help but wonder when Jesus is coming.<br /><br />Bill Grace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/holocaust-echoes/
