No Blame—No Shame[1]
No blame—No shame;
That’s not the game.
No one’s at fault,
No one to name.
Neither me nor you,
Nor anywho.
Ah ha! Ha ha!
I release you, too.
No one to fault,
No one to shame.
Blame patterns and issues,
Expose them by name!
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
[1] “I call [it] no-fault reconciliation—the recognition that we are all of a kind, with the same vulnerabilities, the same possibilities, and the same needs for God and each other.” C. Eric Lincoln, “Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America” (Duke University Press, 1996, page 157)
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