'Thanksgiving?, in 2 parts'

"Thanksgiving?"                                timothy r gates, 11/28/2013

Thanksgiving?
Separatists or Pilgrims
Calvinists or Anglo-Catholics
Indigenous or Nomads - run out of time?
People already here
were used by
People who left their indigenous home
due to being violated by
People who thought it their right to violate
People they believed to be less than real
People.
Sound familiar?
First "American" Thanksgiving, it
was what it was.
Eucharistic aphorisms,
grateful hallelujahs
(same word in more than a few languages)
join in Leonard Cohen's
never innocuous hymn --
I do not pretend that the story of my youth
was, or is true.
I am grateful,
it is not the first Thanksgiving
it is not the time of State religions
(yes, originally States had these, like State birds)
it is not the time of the misogynist,
or the misandrist
it is not the time of slavery,
or even indentured servitude
(note, debt is a voluntary servitude)
it is not the time when gay only meant happy,
or that happy cannot describe being gay
it is not a time of legal segregation,
or a time of the illegality of "mixed unions"
it is not the time of the fewest controlling wealth,
(Oops! This is still the same, different time, same %.)
I am thankful,
for love lived
for love lived
for love lived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfnCX6hj_9I&list=RDSHPgBd-T0pU
'Lord have mercy'

 

‘Thanksgiving?, part 2’                                                                             timothy r gates, 11/29/2013

Gospodi pomilui 
Kyrie eleison
Yā Rabbu ram
Adon raem na
Domine, miserere
qiúzhǔ lián mǐn
A Thighearna, dèan tròcair oirnn,
Namaste.
For every soldier,
Lord have mercy.
For every enemy,
Lord have mercy.
For every innocent,
Lord have mercy.
For every child used,
Lord have mercy.
For every violator,
Lord have mercy.
For every violated,
Lord have mercy.
For every peace maker,
Lord have mercy.
For every person filled with hatred,
Lord have mercy.
For every person living love,
Lord have mercy.
For every person hungry,
every person lonely,
every person thirsty,
every person without a bed,
every person forgotten,
please let a person who sees God before them in these --
share mercy they too know.
Mercy is known
as it is shown,
please let me be both.
i know not eternity,
heaven or hell,
God or,
save for now --
i hope i remember this.
Namaste.