Poem: A Walk with Thay

By Larry Ward

Walking meditation through the thick green jungle
Sights and sounds of war revealed

Fear, confusion, sorrow, and anger

What are we doing here?

Dying

Deformed bodies, still rising from the womb
Of mother earth

Scorched by the ideas of war

Easy to forget,

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By Larry Ward

Walking meditation through the thick green jungle
Sights and sounds of war revealed

Fear, confusion, sorrow, and anger

What are we doing here?

Dying

Deformed bodies, still rising from the womb
Of mother earth

Scorched by the ideas of war

Easy to forget, so far away

We continue to create suffering

Babies’ cries fall on the deaf ears of companies and courts
Agent Orange harmed even our own

Too busy to remember

Hidden from view

Our depression comes from reality

Eyes of hope and forgiveness
Look at me through child ancestors of war

Orphanage visit shocks my heart

Into life

What am I doing now?

The jungle opens to a great space
A crowd of a thousand comes into view

Bowing with joined palms

Silence is thick

Smiles and tears

Larry Ward, True Great Voice, is a Dharma teacher living in Asheville, North Carolina

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