Excellent poem, and I'm right there with you.

I'm an old soul, peacemaker and pacifist, and I've learned that the only way to fight fear and injustice is to stop fighting, and choose love, because the true opposite of love is not hate; it is fear.

As FDR said so eloquently, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, because fear debilitates, disempowers, and shuts people down right when they most need to take action.

I've certainly allowed it to shut me down in the past.

THIS is why Jesus said to love our enemies, because doing otherwise gives energy to their cause, and empowers them against us.

Just look at world governments over millennia for ample proof of this in action.

Acting from fear and distrust is an inherently weak stance, as Woodrow Wilson so clearly pointed out, whereas acting from love and trust is inherently strong. It takes mental and moral strength and courage to trust before that trust is earned.

So let us be strong, and embody the change, by refusing to give into fear, by accepting what is in every moment, and by choosing love and compassion over fear, no matter what is going on in our outer world. It's all illusion anyway.

Only in this way will such change take root and be lasting. Choose a better world, and maintain that choice steadfastly, and in time it will reveal itself.