Posts Tagged ‘poverty’
Morning Sky – Poem for Juarez
Clouds of fire descend on my city,
dismantle the tension of the darkness,
silence the night-howling.
November 4th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
in-between
Dead leaves, crushed without a thought
of the life that had once blazed within the veins of the
delicate skeletons, only move now with the
wind and the boots and the shoes; marionette puppets,
lifeless and broken.
July 30th, 2009 by mmlindsey
The Dividing Line between rich and poor
This video was posted on the El Paso’s NewsPaper Tree site. This is our life… a life in flux. We have only been here for one year, and in a year we have seen the border evolve into a military zone, separating the rich from the poor. Please watch, it is a blaring glimpse into [...]
July 23rd, 2009 by Misty Lindsey
Everything happens…
We lack a holy rage - The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the streets… a holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world… To rage when little children must die of hunger when the tables of the rich are sagging with food… To rage against complacency. To restlessly seek that recklessness [...]
May 22nd, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Amor por Juarez
If Jesus preached in New York City what he preached in Galilee, we’d lay him in his grave again. Woody Guthrie Living in a border town as volatile and spotlighted as the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez border will certainly challenge one’s worldview. It has flipped mine upside down. For example, try explaining the $7 million a [...]
May 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
The Desert Future
I hear of words like ‘compassion fatigue’…. And I have to tell you that the concept nauseates me. That we who have so much can even contemplate tiring of reaching out to those of our human family who have absolutely nothing, is absolutely incomprehensible to my little brain. ~Maithri Goonetilleke – The Soaring Impulse Blog [...]
April 19th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Border Land
A world where half of the people live in extreme poverty is neither just nor secure. Our security depends on more than military might; it depends on other people’s security, well-being, and a hope that replaces anger and fear. We simply cannot and will not beat “swords into plowshares” (remove the threats of war) until all people can [...]
April 10th, 2009 by mmlindsey
The Desert Challenge
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in [...]
February 1st, 2010 by Matt Lindsey