I am a pastor, a writer of various genres such as poetry writing and essay literary criticism.
However, when retiring from the ministry and helping small churches, it is often heartbreaking to see the difficulties of poor neighbors, and often it is sad that there is no power to help them outside of prayer. It is only a hope that the legal system that can overcome the contradiction of the capitalist society, which has the gap of the rich and the poor.
In the deep despair
Choi Paul Yearn
Her pituitary gland does not produce hormones,
so her face becomes more thin and darkens like mud.
Her husband, looking like indifferent to her pain
seems to get drunk almost every day.
His family are living with only by his every day's income
How the misfortunes of the pain come upon his wife?
How can he live with indifference to her pain?
In front of such difficult things of our living
what should I singing today and what should I preach?
Rich people, enjoying astronomical dividend income
are used to ignore and indifferent to the poverty
so the poet sings to the empty sky like the blind's flute.
The leaves of the sigh and moan are piled up and rotten
in the world where 1% is more occupying than 99%
what should I sing my agony living within the poor
All I can do for them is only prayer.
It is sad to me often I can do nothing without prayer
for those who are in the depths of such despair
In the 21st century poverty should be a thing of the past, but our capitalist system with its winners and losers is going to be hard to change, the Have's are quite happy, thank you very much!
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
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