See poem below.

(Inspiration: Holocaust, victims of political oppression, torture & all oppressed peoples of the world)

 

 

“Let Me Breathe”

by V.G. Grace

 

Let me breathe within a valley of kindness;

let me breathe amongst a people full of love.

 

Let me breathe where the air is sweet

like honey;

 

where pain’s forgotten history

and humanity is humanity’s beloved.

 

Let me breathe surrounded by an eternal garden,

planted

within untroubled soil;

 

let me breathe the perfume of tranquility,

instead of

old civilization’s old sweat and turmoil.

 

The promise of my exquisite hopes

are beckoning;

as wide and never-ending as the sea.

 

‘Till then, I breathe beneath my burdens;

not quite prisoner,

not quite free.

 

(Special thanks to V.G. Grace for the use of her moving poem “Let Me Breathe”)

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