Meister Eckhart
"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love."
HIGH WITNESS
as we are camped out here
on this more often and indeed very darkling plain
Djwhal Khul tell us to be the high witness
we have our electronic campfire
we sit facing the television
we move through the ceremonies of Kennedy funerals
through the ceremonies upon the death of a princess
we bear high witness
we bear high witness to war after war
there is Desert Storm
the Towers fall
oil explodes in oceans
earthquakes come
tornadoes come
and then the fires
Netanyahu speaks to Congress
Obama speaks to Parliament
in 1939, a ten year old boy writes
of the terrible scar of war
and pleads for leaders to sit down together
sit down together and talk things out
work together
this scar is a terrible thing
these wars…
long deceased now,
that ten year old yet watches
still keeps watch for these children
we sit facing the screen
we watch and listen
all the world speaks now
cries out in pictures
the grandson of a Kenyan cook in the British Army
stands before the British Parliament
as President of the United States
and says “It will be years before
these revolutions will reach
their conclusions”…
and says, “We have a say in how this story ends.”
he quotes Churchill: “…wherever the bird of freedom
chirps in the human heart…”
there is the eye that sees
--Barbara Smith Stoff
