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.