Excerpt from Ellen Bass, "Pray for Peace":

"When you walk to your car, to the mailbox,
to the video store, let each step
be a prayer that we all keep our legs,
that we do not blow off anyone else’s legs.
Or crush their skulls.
And if you are riding on a bicycle
or a skateboard, in a wheelchair, each revolution
of the wheels a prayer as the earth revolves:
less harm, less harm, less harm."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/02/ellen-bass-pray-for-peace.html

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