No words

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Sue Vincent

Sometimes there are no words. They have all been said. We are left only with those that sound like platitudes although they are spoken from the heart.

There are no words. Yet to remain silent is to accept somehow, that this is the way our days now unfold, that terror and violence are just news items, that life is cheap and human flesh mere fodder for extremist politics.

There are no words, yet there are those will spew rhetoric and seek to boost their own cause or popularity on the back of such horror.

There are no words to encompass the abhorrence felt at the perpetration of such acts felt by all those with a heart, regardless of nationality or creed. This is no more than murder, committed by a handful of power–hungry bigots seeking to impose by force what reason and freedom denies…and in doing so, going against the deepest tenets of the very faith in whose name they purport to act, in order to sow a distrust and a terror that serves their lust for control.

There are no words, only a hope that their desire to stir hatred will fail, that we can stand together and rise above the fanatic’s zeal to spread a pall of fear across our communities.

My prayers and thoughts are with the victims of atrocities and attacks in Brussels today. Not just those on the ground who are faced with the immediate experience of such horror, but those who must deal with the fallout, those who sit at home waiting for news and those who will wake tomorrow to a world from which a face and a voice will be forever absent. For their pain, there can be no words.

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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34 Responses to No words

  1. Chatter Master says:
    March 22, 2016 at 20:07

    Amen Sue. I’m standing at work reading about this. Horrified by it.

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  3. Mary Smith says:
    March 22, 2016 at 20:27

    Thanks, Sue, you have expressed it so well.

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  4. vanbytheriver says:
    March 22, 2016 at 20:42

    Somehow, you found some very meaningful words. 💔

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  5. Dorothy Dellow says:
    March 22, 2016 at 21:20

    You’re right Sue, there are no words as such. However, if those who are expected to speak don’t, they will be castigated in the press. If they do, they are accused of spewing rhetoric. It is a no win situation for some and yet, in our guts, we all of us feel the same revulsion, the same outrage, the same sorrow. It doesn’t matter whether we are rich or poor, politician or elector, clergy person or atheist. We all feel.

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  8. vronlacroix says:
    March 22, 2016 at 23:07

    Beautifully expressing what cannot be said..Thankyou..

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  10. adeleulnais says:
    March 23, 2016 at 08:15

    Such sadness as terror by a few mindless fanatics takes lives again. I want us to stand strong and not to let them turn us into killers like they want to. My heart goes out to those who have lost and who are waiting still.

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  13. Don Massenzio says:
    March 23, 2016 at 10:58

    Great post. I was mortified her in the US how quickly our politicians moved to politicize this. I put a plea on Facebook to have a moratorium on political sparring for just one day to honor those lost in Brussels. I was amazed at the people who agreed with my post and then continued to post political garbage on their feed. Are we becoming desensitized to these attacks?

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    • Sue Vincent says:
      March 23, 2016 at 11:17

      It’s all in the ratings, isn’t it? Say the right thing at the right time and up you go in the polls… sad, but true.
      I hope I never feel less shocked and horrified at such atrocities, but I fear that we are becoming much more accepting of violence in general as part of our normality. The first graphic, though doubtless sanitised, reports of war and famine that I saw as a child remain even now in my mind as examples of the suffering caused by man that needs to be addressed. I think we accept such images far more easily today.

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  14. relationspdbeverly says:
    March 23, 2016 at 13:14

    Reblogged this on Pamela D. Beverly and commented:
    We don’t accept this. We’re silent because we are numb. Once again, the world is face-to-face with terrorism in its ugliest form.

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  15. jacquelineobyikocha says:
    March 23, 2016 at 16:57

    There are some painful moments that you just lose the words to say anymore. How people can be so hate-filled is what I fail to understand.

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  16. socialbridge says:
    March 23, 2016 at 21:29

    Words of Love, Sue. Thanks.

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  17. dgkaye says:
    March 24, 2016 at 16:24

    Amen 😦 ❤

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  18. Mél@nie says:
    March 26, 2016 at 06:29

    mille merci, Sue! thanx for your impressive and emotional post… ❤

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