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PREVENTABLE EPIDEMIC?

Yes, education is the remedy
To cure the malady called ignorance;
But hatred and deep-seated bigotry
Can build rock-hard impregnable defense
Against known facts as mighty as the sea.
So racism and fear of difference,
And festering, phobic longtime bigotry
Surround the hater with a wall thats dense
Enough to render vain the pounding sea
Breaking in vain against the rocks of ignorance.

Education grows vast like the ocean,
With ideas coming in on every tide;
Facts and attitudes, even emotions
Expand and grow, becoming deep and wide;
But bigotry arrests all growth, all motion.

Therefore, it behooves the School of Light
To shine its beacon beams upon the youth,
And teach them to seek out the good and right,
To explore various routes toward the truth
That makes us free to fight the righteous fight.


March, 2002



NO GREATER LOVE

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
- John 15:13

We take the words of sacrifice to mean
The greatest love is dying for ones friends;
However, lay down life could also mean
To LIVE for others, giving til the end;
To die might be a loving act all right,
But living lovingly is hardly slight.

All things that live will die, and thats a fact
We all must face, like it or like it not;
To die for friends can be a noble act,
But living for them means that we have got
To keep on dedicating day and night
Our lives to causes with no end in sight.

December, 2003