Impotent Hate, Potent Love – Boston Marathon Tragedy #1
In remembrance of violence, no. In remembrance of love, yes.
Impotent Hate
Can you barely see the quote? That’s because it’s hardly possible to see clearly in the ‘fog of war’. It seems scarcely possible to see anything else when blood is all around. It seems beyond possible to hear love when hate is so loud.
Potent Love
But barely does not mean can’t. We can see love. Always triumphant, always victorious in the end. That’s because violence is a symptom of impotence. Though it seems so powerful at that moment, so strong, so hard to overcome, it can’t sustain itself. It falls because it is a lack of power, a lack of ability that led to it, not the opposite.
Love on the other hand is the essence of power itself. It is power. It is potency. It is capability. It is triumph. Always.
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman, a runner.
Quote by Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer
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