Food for thought...?

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17/02/2025

There is much to be said

about the state of the world.

As silence falls where truth goes unheard

Moments when the Earth cries out

to its people,

As its voice grows faint in a world so blurred.


What are we known for as humans?

Are we shaped by our ever-changing nature,

our greed, or our envy?

What would nature say

if it could grow a mouth?

We could speak of global warming,

the shifting economy,

inflation climbing like ivy,

how a gunshot to the head

is as normal as

The evening news that no longer embeds.


Why do we embrace darkness

as if it's the only thing that knows us?

As if the light will take from us

what we are unwilling to give?

We turn from the light,

And have somehow convinced ourselves

that we can be friends with the dark

Convinced ourselves

that darkness is all we are.


As if we do not ache

for a touch of the sun,

a whisper of morning light,

an embrace from

the hands that made the stars.


A lot can be said about the state of the world

But so little is said about the state of our hearts

So little a thing, but possesses a power so big.

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