tEach mE wHaT tO sAy tHiS nEw yEaRs eVe..

dear jess,

Come this new year, should i say "happy new years"? much more should i say "blessed new year"?? what should i say? do tell me because i do not know. I sit here and watch my tv of graves and graves of unamed bodies in them. Families wailing of what seems like an after math of a war. Bodies flung unknown, unrecognized, unclaimed. Families walking through bodies after bodies, with the unimaginable task of identifying their loved ones!

And yet, i remain unmoved, unscared? Tens of thousands of families will be crying tonight and on the eve of new year, tens upon thousands will face poverty and hunger, tens upon thousands will scoff at the new year they will not even notice has come, tens upon thousands still looking for their loved dead. And i, one person, can sit here wondering what is to be wished come new years eve?

Make a pledge, move from the clasping of tv remotes to the clasping of prayerful and giving hands?

In human intercourse, the tragedy begins not when there is a misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Henry David Thoreau

by His grace,
jess