Sow Love Reap Love

Sow paddy, reap paddy

Sow wheat, reap wheat

Plant mango, pluck mango

Fruit of work, you meet!

Sow love, reap love

Be merciful, mercy reap

It’s Karma, isn’t it so?

In creation sown deep?

Sow hate in your field

Hate will be the fruit

Honor’s harvest is honor

That’s the golden route.

"Before and after the day

They’ve shown me dislike
Thrown thorns on my path

I’ll avenge with spikes!"

Sow violence, reap violence

Fallen blood, for blood cries

Wounds in any holy name

Stand unjust and unwise!

Is it such a high mystery?

Beyond your mind’s might?

That you keep stupidly stoking

The fires of fiendish fight?

Permit peace a fair chance

And peace sure will prevail

It’s God’s gift, precious grace

Wiping human tears and wail!

Xavier Bage

Fri, July 14, 2017