At the end of my poem "The Visitor," there is the line "There is nothing one man will not do to another." It's a truth that I recognized in great pain and horror, but once you know this truth, it's possible to also know that there is nothing one man will not give another, too. We are beings in process, in a deep spiritual process that we recognize and intuit and do not understand at all. It gives me great hope and great faith that it's possible to understand this in a single human lifetime. If we live long enough, if we are given enough time on earth, we can live to see the spiritual potential of human beings.
Carolyn Forché, "Infinite Obligation to the Other" from A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, ed. Ilya Kaminsky and Katherine Towler
