Subject: Andrew Bindon's "Coming to Meet You" From: LHanawalt@aol.com Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:59:39 EDT

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>From Larry:
I had asked Andrew for one of his poems, and would like you all to have it,
too.

>From Andrew:
Have you heard this one? I have it on T-shirts. Brian read it to the
participants in one of the original Partnership courses, and its been
translated into arabic and published in Iraqi newspapers!

COMING TO MEET YOU

We are throwing down our weapons
We are leaving our barricades
We are coming to meet you

There are, sixty-five thousand of us

If you receive us with friendship this will be something new
If you do not we shall die

And they rise out of the ground
Across the barbed wire
Through the mist
And the shells fall
And they walk on
And with each rifle shot
My father died
And my mother died
And my sister died
And my brother died
And still they come
Stumbling on through the mist
Pace after pace
Wave after wave of men going to their deaths

And then,
ONE MAN
One man in an army
One man in the world
Threw down his rifle and cried
And then another man seeing the first
Threw down his rifle
And then another
And another
And another
And a strange silence
Filled the war zone

And no one knew that it would happen
And no one can be sure that it would happen again
But everyone who was there when those soldiers met
Everyone who felt that embrace
Everyone who knew that joy
Knew that love can be made in the world each day
By any ONE MAN.

I am throwing down my weapons
I am leaving my barricades
I am coming to meet you

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