CPTnet

January 25, 2005

AMMAN, JORDAN POEM: I am More Used to Seeing Bullets on the Ground than I am
Date Pits

by Greg Rollins

[Note: Rollins is currently in Amman, waiting to rejoin the the Christian
Peacemaker Team in Iraq.]

In some places

I am more used to seeing spent bullets on the ground

than I am date pits.

At a glance

the two look similar:

short

thin

covered in dust.

Their tips share a point,

their butt ends lazy.

But the two serve a different purpose;

one takes life

the other gives it.

One is rusting

the other is seeding.

I often wish

I was more used to seeing date pits

forlorn on the ground

than I am spent bullets

but whenever I see either

-at a glance

I know a life has been served.