Dispute unavoidable.
Unanimity: a pipe dream.
Every group, large
or small,
Has from time immemorial,
Faced the same inevitable wall,
A contest adversarial.
Has from time immemorial,
Faced the same inevitable wall,
A contest adversarial.
The outcomes
of dispute are few,
Though each seems different, too many to name.
Either one side conquers, the other gives way,
Or terms are reached irking both sides the same.
Though each seems different, too many to name.
Either one side conquers, the other gives way,
Or terms are reached irking both sides the same.
When difference is too fundamental,
Compromise is not sacramental,
Despite instincts – or pressures – to be loving and gentle,
Resoluteness is not incidental.
Sometimes difference cannot be resolved.
Compromise is not sacramental,
Despite instincts – or pressures – to be loving and gentle,
Resoluteness is not incidental.
Sometimes difference cannot be resolved.
Strive to find right ways, my Friends,
But means are not justified by ends,
On one thing the Truth depends:
Wisdom and love keep the Light involved.
But means are not justified by ends,
On one thing the Truth depends:
Wisdom and love keep the Light involved.
The
Light is one, but we are not, and that is not our fault.
It shows us all according to our sight, our needs, our scope.
So even while all cleave to inner guide divine,
There are times we can no longer walk in one line.
It shows us all according to our sight, our needs, our scope.
So even while all cleave to inner guide divine,
There are times we can no longer walk in one line.
And so we find fellowship
split, sundered, lost.
One body
divided, a Rubicon crossed.
Sometimes the
uncomfortable,
the unthinkable,
is right.
the unthinkable,
is right.
Maybe one day
what is broken will be made whole.
Maybe it
won’t.
Yet still, it
may
be right.
be right.
Written
June 2020
