Today,
I welcome the suffering
of this world – 
of those beaten and maimed and destroyed beneath the bombs
and 
of those who live in the fear that insists on dropping those bombs.
I lie hand in hand
in the pit of death
and
I wrap all the love I have ever received
around the broken hearts that oppress – 
for I am connected with them all
and
I cannot turn my soul from their pain – 
no matter how despicable my human mind
may perceive them to be.