Here is a poem written by an Irish Poet, Kathleen O’Meara in 1869 – after a plague devastated Ireland in the late 1860’s
SOMETHING LOVELY
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 were still
and listened more deeply
someone meditated someone prayed
someone danced someone met their own shadow
and people started thinking differently—- And people healed…
And in the absence of people who lived in ignorant ways dangerous, mindless, and heartless….
The earth began to heal— And when the danger ended and people found themselves…
They grieved for the dead and they made new choices and dreamed of new visions
and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully
just as they had been healed.
Kathleen O ‘ Meara (1869)
