Kathleen O'Meara's
poem, 'And People Stayed Home,' written in 1869.
And people stayed home
and read books and
listened
and rested and
exercised
and made art and
played
and learned new ways
of being
and stopped
and listened deeper
someone meditated
someone prayed
someone danced
someone met their
shadow
and people began to
think differently
and people healed
and in the absence of
people who lived in ignorant ways,
dangerous, meaningless
and heartless,
even the earth began
to heal
and when the danger
ended
and people found each
other
grieved for the dead
people
and they made new
choices
and dreamed of new
visions
and created new ways
of life
and healed the earth
completely
just as they were
healed themselves.
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