Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Humanity II



I wrote a poem
and betrayed my soul
for today I feel dark and alone.
The news saturating our beings,
 drowning us
with sorrow.
The ancient temple destroyed, 
migrants fleeing to Hungary,
children hungry and lost.
Senseless killings,
manhunts and lives coming undone.
My heart aches,
I am ankle deep in the sewer of life. 
Philosophy and love are not the answer,
heroin on the streets is not the answer,
frankly I don't know what is.

 

35 comments:

  1. In the face of so much it is easy to feel helpless and to begin to question the point of it all. Love is a question we have to ask ourselves in every moment. Will I love. How can I love. What can I give. It does matter in the end

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  2. As X said, the common denominator is Love; without it the darkness & chaos rule & win, dragging us into depressed doldrums. All we can truly be responsible for is ourselves, how we relate to the world & the people around us. I fight rage all the time. I like your line/ I am ankle deep in the sewer of life/. So make lemonade, make love, & wear hip boots.

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  3. This is so intense & thought provoking!

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  4. You express our human angst and predicament so poignantly...a desperate situation that we cannot solve ourselves, we need a savior who transforms us.

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  5. I think so many of us are feeling what you are writing about here. We do feel helpless and it seems like there is little we can do.

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  6. The world is sometimes full of chaos and evil, we cannot change some things and it does make us feel helpless. It only we as humans would choose to love a little bit more.

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  7. There is so much sadness in today's world. I was heartbroken about the news of the temple being destroyed. And what in the world is the answer for all of those fleeing migrants! I empathize with your last line. I don't know what is the answer either.

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  8. i think often the little things that we can do for those around us can be an answer. my daughter teaches german in one of the refugee camps close to where we live. it's a small thing but makes a big difference for the girls that have a chance to learn the language

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  9. If you get 2 comments from me, panic not, it's blogspot playing up with Wordpress again.
    I was saying that I know that feeling of overwhelm and helplessness in the face of suffering and destruction all too well, but I don't think poetic effort is ever wasted. Those two opening lines really made me stop in my tracks though!

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  10. Yes, I feel this way so often, and then I hole up and bury my head in the sand for a while. But I can't live there, so eventually I must return to the news of the world. There doesn't really seem to be an answer, except that I think we can only do what we can do within our own lives. Make the world around us a better place as much as we can. xoxo

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  11. Ugg, yeah there is so much crap out there it doesn't make you happy for life sometimes

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  12. Some days it's hard to see the light shining through the darkness, isn't it? I love this quote: "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.” ― Frederick Buechner

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  13. It is confusion in a confused world and no one is listening

    Hank

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  14. And the last
    step of Love
    is never giving
    up.. i walk
    both paths
    and for
    me at
    least
    they
    JOIN
    AGAIN
    @LOVE..
    AND THEN
    EyEs see
    ALL as Beauty
    All as LOVE..
    and i for one
    have faith..
    hope.. and
    most importantly
    BEIEF WITH NO
    DOUBTS OR FEARS
    THAT WILL
    SPREAD..
    NEVER
    GIVING
    THAT
    UP
    BY ShEAR
    FORCE
    WiLLOVEAsONe!..:)

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  15. Let us hope love and grace will transcend the despair. xo

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  16. We are the ones that have created the chaos and then we wonder what to do with it. I think the answers are simpler than we think, but it would take individual change on such a broad spectrum.
    I really enjoyed both of your poems.

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  17. When I read the news, I get very depressed too ~ No, drugs is not answer but love is and kindness ~

    Hope you are well Ayala ~

    Grace

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  18. I love the first two lines.

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  19. These are dark days indeed. I don't know the answer either.

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  20. Nice to see your poem again today, Ayala!

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  21. Everytime I come to your blog and see your sweet smiling dog, I know there is hope in the world, still. I don't have any answers either but I have to believe that love will win out and all will have a home. Spencer is kanzensakura

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  22. Ankle deep in the sewer of life...well said.. we're all there no doubt.

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  23. I have a feeling that only by finding the sun in our heart we can make change., but these stabs at humanity leaves us with scars,

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  24. heavy with sadness this world is weighted down, prayer lightens our burdens
    and points us in the direction of mercy

    much love...

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  25. I don't think any of us does (know the answer, I mean), certainly not the Governments of Europe in their ivory castles.

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  26. it's cliche, isn't it, but as I get older, the more I come to believe that Love is the only answer. ~

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  27. As always
    answers
    start with
    a Mother's
    Love.. UNconditional
    True.. and never cOld
    or
    old..
    when those arms
    reach around
    THE World
    THAT
    Truth
    Will Reign
    less race
    MORE color
    less religion
    or creed..
    LESS
    NATION
    less sexual
    orientation
    less greed
    less gender..
    MORE HUMAN
    LOVE
    NOW..
    A KISS
    OF MOTHER NATURE
    ALWAYS RAINS tRuth and LIGhT
    of
    Mother's
    LOVE
    MAN
    i
    FeST
    OUR
    eYes
    in
    Arms of
    Love
    instead
    of
    COLD
    METAL GUNS..:)

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  28. You have expressed so well how discouraged we can become when we see so much wrong. Fortunately, also there is much right that is happening - on the human level, person to person, helping hands extended. I really relate to your poem, and you wrote it so well.

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  29. It gets to feeling like a big old hole doesn't it? I think real love is the answer.

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  30. Third time I am seeing this poem...and again there is news of another temple destroyed today. Will it never end?

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  31. I don't know what the answer is either, but I applaud your honesty--there is much sadness in the world right now

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  32. There are many of us that share your sad mood, Ayala, over the atrocities going on worldwide. Like Sherry said, there is much good going on too but our media moguls don't like to share that with us. So we have to find it ourselves and lift ourselves up.

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  33. The world is in a messy place right now...

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