We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns
To a destination where all signs tell us
It is possible and imperative that we learn
A brave and startling truth.
And when we come to it
To the day of peacemaking
When we release our fingers
From fists of hostility
And allow the pure air to cool our palms
When we come to it
When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of
hate
And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean
When battlefields and coliseum
No longer take our unique and particular sons and daughters
Up with the bruised and bloody grass
To lie in identical plots in foreign soil
2006-09-18 20:58:20 · 10 answers · asked by Desert Sienna 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Heaven is not lonely and void of violence, hostility, & war. Here on earth, we often battle lonlyness, violence, hostility, & war with faith, hope, and love that this will be temporary.
2006-09-19 07:39:17 · answer #1 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My love, I do consider we now have met in some other existence...And our come across felt the equal - you are familiar. You have got a daring unreserved method that impresses me. You aren't afraid to be excessive, and that i like it. Is there any gaurantee that this style of come across will happen again? Will we once more meet someday? (Ambiguos as to now or yet another existence/that means both) I don't need to lose my adolescence and the final experience. I defy aging. Neither do I wish to die without the peace of mind of getting this encounter once more. Maya Angelou is 'heavy'. Peace.
2016-08-09 14:41:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She identifies celestial beings and the universe with the cycle of life and death. She believes in renewal, possibly suggesting the belief in reincarnation. I think she refers to peace more as a state of mind than a state in the world today. She refers to racism as a metaphor for violence and a cause of it, which is very true.
2006-09-19 05:46:56 · answer #3 · answered by wife of Ali Pasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poem tells us that despite aloof and indifferent nature we earthlings can and must ("possible and imperative") learn love and non-violence. This is the truth that "all signs tell us".
Seems like there might me more to the poem.
2006-09-18 21:44:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is looking foreward to the day when there will be peace in all the world. When there is heaven on earth. When Jesus Christ returns and brings everlasting peace to this world.
2006-09-18 21:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by mistyrose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maya likes to bone down. Seriously.
2006-09-18 21:01:27 · answer #6 · answered by hoboeroticska 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To live and die in the world we live on no matter what the task, we must go on until we are no more, for that is the will of it all.
2006-09-18 21:06:20 · answer #7 · answered by VEBRA 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think she needs to finish it. Are you sure there isn't another verse?
2006-09-18 21:04:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be reborn and go through the circle of life again..and again..and again ...etc
2006-09-18 22:00:36 · answer #9 · answered by terry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT MEANS THAT ONCE WE FINISH WITH HATRED OF ONE ANOTHER AND START LOVING EVERYONE ,THEN WE FIND PEACE
2006-09-18 21:22:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋