Now You Know The Worst

[Matthew Gates]

Just thought I'd share this, something that AOL has put up.
It's a sad poem, I think, haven't really broken it down to what it actually means, but it's not at all that hard to understand.

Now you know the worst
we humans have to know
about ourselves, and I am sorry,

for I know that you will be afraid.
To those of our bodies given
without pity to be burned, I know

there is no answer
but loving one another,
even our enemies, and this is hard.

But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine

though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light.

You do not have to walk in darkness.
If you will have the courage for love,
you may walk in light.

It will be the light of those who have suffered
for peace. It will be your light.



-- From the book "A TIMBERED CHOIR The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997"
Copyright 1998 by Wendell Berry
All rights reserved.
Reprinted with permission of Counterpoint Press.

[sail3005]

where did AOL post it?

[Matthew Gates]

[sail3005]

was that from their website or something?

[Matthew Gates]

The Welcome Screen, you just click on that picture and it brought you to that poem.