Another deeply thoughtful poem that speaks out loud what so many are thinking these days, and your final stanza is the diamond that SPARKLES so brilliantly. May many contemplate your fine words, brother.

D.C. in Christ

BECAUSE WE KNOW 'EVIL' IS N-E-V-E-R IN CHARGE...WE KNOW THAT GOD 'ALLOWED' THIS PANDEMIC. THE REASON...? SOME THINGS WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND UNTIL WE SEE HIM FACE TO FACE. SO, UNTIL THEN, WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR LOVE AND FAITH IN OUR GOD...KNOWING HE WILL SAFELY LEAD US ON. THANK YOU JOHN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

John: Yikes! You express my sentiments exactly! There is no doubt that COVID 19 is being manipulated by those who intend to profit by it in various ways and to control the unwashed masses. I have always been a Pauper, not a Prince, but a Duke. In many ways the plague is being spread by Abject Stoopidity [sick]. I have never had a bunch of dough and for some, enough will never be enough. Yuh cain't take it to Heaven, nor can yuh take it with yuh when yuh do a cannon ball into the Fiery Lake! I just looked at Sandie's post and will remark that only a bit of irony that out here in the Exact Geographic Center of the Middle of Nowhere, we are jealously guarding our "bath tissue" with 000 Buckshot!

Drugstore Cowboy

I think this crisis has a lot to do with greed, both on the government level as well as the civilian levels. Price gouging has become so severe that Amazon has stopped the people from selling the Sanitizers and the Toilet paper. Other countries are making big bucks by selling testing equipment and masks and latex gloves. When the vaccine is developed there will be more big bucks for the pharma. GREED!!! That's all I can say!!!

I, personally will never take a vaccine. I don't even take flu shots as there are just too many strains of flu bugs, and I was told that the flu shot would only give 20% protection. So I'd rather just have the flu and stay in bed for about a week and I'll be fine.

Sandie

Good morning, John... Here in California it is 11:20 AM... John, I know what you are saying an as a sometimes agnostic, I do not think that God has anything to do with this and it is as we've been told: a major Chinese screw-up... At this time My wife and I are doing as we've been told but I am getting so absolutely tired of hearing about this every hour of every day and hating the political football that this horrible tragedy had become... Thank's for allowing a bit of a vent here.
Mark