I choose to tell my perhaps grandchildren
that when this war of wars was called
I was lying in my own bathtub
in dollar store bubbles.
I could not watch the sober suit,
the narrow stripes,
the pious stars,
the proud and final
fall.
The heart of my vocational life is to bear authentic and courageous witness.
© March 2003 Marti Keller
I choose to tell my perhaps grandchildren
that when this war of wars was called
I was lying in my own bathtub
in dollar store bubbles.
I could not watch the sober suit,
the narrow stripes,
the pious stars,
the proud and final
fall.
Breakthroughs, often triggered both by our blind spots and our insights, merge together to offer lessons that are at once painful and illuminating.