Suspension
Dangling between atrocities
this week,
turning, helplessly turning
from explosion to explosion,
from death to destruction,
from government ineptitude
to legislative ignorance,
I wonder:
Is this the end of days
of which we have been
warned,
or just the entropic mess to
which
we have deteriorated?
Tragedy follows tragedy,
and we console ourselves
with stories of the helpers,
the Samaritans who stop by
the roadside
and minister to the victims,
who root out weeds in our
human garden,
who proffer hope for our humanity.
And yet, we fail in combat with the
sower:
the intolerant, abusive,
arrogant wrong-- the ideologues
to whom we say:
Stop and see the children,
the innocent, who suffer.
Look at the senseless
carnage, the loss, the devastation.
Listen to the voice within
that speaks
of peace.
No comments:
Post a Comment