QUOTE : In our despair that justice is slow<br />we sit with heads bowed<br />wondering<br />how<br />even whether<br /> we will ever be healed.<br /><br />Perhaps it is a question<br />only the ravaged<br />the violated<br />seriously ask.<br />And is that not now<br />almost all of us?<br />But hope is on the way.<br /><br />As usual Hope is a woman<br />herding her children<br />around her<br />all she retains of who<br />she was; as usual<br />except for her kids<br />she has lost almost everything.<br /><br />Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.