by Sigrid E. Mortensen

© 2023

The most powerful weapon

In the human arsenal

Is Love.

When your heart flows with adoration

For the smallest speck

On every hair

On the head of each one of your so-called “enemies,”

Wars on this planet will cease to exist.

The most powerful fuel

In the human engine

Is Compassion.

When you see and acknowledge

The plight of another

And see each struggle as potentially your own

You will lift humanity to glorious heights

And soar.

The most powerful force

Of human attraction

Is Oneness.

Stronger than gravity

Than nuclear bonds

Than electromagnetism

Is the recognition that

My pain is your pain

Your ache is my ache

My triumph is your triumph, too.

In our quantum entanglement

There is no time

No distance

Between your world and mine.

We are in an overlapping space

Footsteps walking in identical prints in damp sand

Separated by an illusion

Drinking in

And sighing out

The self-same

Breath.