A Poem…”Can this World Beat the Odds?”
Can this world beat the odds
And burn its old gods
And face its future
Rid of its sutures
Its old wounds healed
Its faith congealed
Into something sweeter than today.
Of something much nicer than now…
Will what lives in the hearts
of those who fight death with their art
On today’s soul-pained earth
Prove to be stronger
Than the impossible dearth
Of all that has worth
Of love, life and hope
things at which
we still blindly grope.