<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521594" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Response to Merton: Balandi and Alkaocai</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To choose the world is to choose to do the work I am capable of doing, <br>in collaboration with my brother and sister, to make the world better, more free, <br>more just, more livable, more human. And it has now become transparently <br>obvious that mere automatic 'rejection of the world' and 'contempt for the world' <br>is in fact not a choice but an evasion of choice.' <br>Thomas Merton. Contemplation in A World of Action</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our world is<br>bleeding out<br>filling the sea<br>with stolen<br>humanity</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why should I not<br>reject this contemptible<br>world? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Last night<br>in Kahdahar's shadow<br>Fear smashed open<br>the simple doors <br>of Balandi and Alkaozai</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as an American soldier<br>defiled<br>the mothers and children<br>of two nations, <br>spread thick their blood<br>and painted red<br>this sinful<br>world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521594" data-title="Response to Merton: Balandi and Alkaocai de Steven Federle" data-description="To choose the world is to choose to do the work I am capable of doing, in collaboration with my brother and sister, to make the world better, more free, more just, more livable, more human. And it has now become transparently obvious that mere ..."></div> </div> </div>

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