Sadly inspired by world events,

And by the leader of the so called

‘Christian Coalition’

“And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more;

People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening…”

Paul Simon,

The Sounds of Silence

As I frequently travel about our ever changing planet

I’m filled with sadness at the many things I hear and see

Hardly anyone seems very cordial or open minded any more

And no longer are human hearts filled with merriment or glee

To me our world seems to be ever sadly transforming

And to me these horrific changes don’t bode very well

We humans seem to be hate-filled and self-centered now

We humans seem to thrive on creating our own earthly hell

The once created brotherhood of earth’s ancient human race

Is filled with calls for genocide and ‘ethnic and racial cleansing’

And it always seems to be organized religion versus organized religion

In this cycle of self destruction and violence that never seems to be ending

As I travel on I soon pass an old established church

But I can no longer even find solace there within

Since today from its once lofty and revered pulpit

Hatred is vehemently preached - our greatest sin

And I truly have to wonder these very troublesome days

What the Creator must think as He looks down upon man

I doubt that using Him to spark even more hatred and violence

Was what He truly had in mind in His very serene Creative Plan

We also now constantly and callously destroy

Everything in our so called ‘modern progress path’

On our extremely self-centered spiral of self destruction

In our gluttonous modern world that’s racing much too fast

Will humanity even exist tomorrow

Does anyone’s god really even care

As I ponder this I spot a forlorn creature

So I sadly stop walking and now at it I stare

I’m sadly peering at a tiny brown and white newborn fawn

Its mother now lies very dead in the freshly manicured grass

It seems like just yesterday that this was a great green forest

But everywhere today ‘civilization’ encroaches much too fast

The numerous isolated motorists now speeding by

Hardly notice this distressed orphaned fawn at all

They seem far too ego-centric and self-absorbed

Rushing home or to the newest trendy shopping mall

I wish this tiny orphaned creature well

As it slowly and mournfully wanders away

And deep in my now very glum heart and soul

I realize that we are all sadly earth’s orphans today

“And the people eagerly bowed and prayed

To the self-centered hate-filled world they had made…”