Hate is a fence
restricting my good will to my own front yard.
Injustice is a wall
about a privilege that guards it from my fellow men.
Prejudice is but a railroad track
that limits respectability to my neighborhood.
Carl J. Nelson, “Beyond My Walls” Eternity Can Wait (1962) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
A stone upon my hand contains a treasury of secrets.
Raindrops splashing on my cheek will ever bring surprise.
Trees swaying in the wind express the mystery of life.
Carl J. Nelson, Snow in April (1996) (Unitarian Universalist, minister)