Such a wonderful gift Seemingly taken for granted Living in this country No contemplating the good fortune Preponderance of information Distracting us from living In a sweet groove of everything going right Then awakened by a crisis We read of others; see the videos of strife Those are other people; not us We see the pictures of the floods Many lives lost; but not ours Tornadoes causing devastation From Haiti to Tennessee; we have clean water Locusts devastating eastern Africa Our supermarkets are full of food Dictators around the world Bringing misery to their citizens Children and adults dying of starvation We have shelter, heat and electronics Very few know what it is to be ravaged To be homeless and addicted The plight of our veterans is almost kept a secret Drug cartels rule Mexico; we cannot call them terrorists Sex slave traffic crosses our border Border Patrol are not allowed to do their jobs Illegals seem to cross at will When will we learn? When do we come together to solve issues When does a nation return to its core values? When do we return to significant prayer? When will music be significant again? When with the Chinese Virus be under control These are things I think about as I meditate on life Stanski March 21, 2020 ^
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Steve Haarman 