Not Today

If I were a new glimmer
about to be born
I would not be born today.

I would not choose now
to enter this world
in it's hateful disarray.

Terrorism
in Europe

anti-Korean movements
in Japan

LGBTQ Russian citizens
being tortured and imprisoned

Syrian refugees fleeing
a decimated homeland,

and Donald Trump
peeling back American's skin
to reveal the ugly ignorance and intolerance within.

No.

If I were watching
this
all this
from that unseeable place
where souls await,
I would not be tempted
to join a world
where humans
willingly give up
their better,
kinder,
wiser selves
for the fleeting betrayals
of
power
and pride.




CHM
6/4/2017