James Patrick Kinney is an American Poet who wrote this poem in the 1960s. Although it was first rejected as being too controversial, it gained popularity rapidly after it had been read out at the council meeting of all religions.
The poet describes the tragic deaths of a group of six who stand around a fire - each holding on grimly to a log of wood. Allowing their selfishness, prejudice, malice and suspicions to dictate their actions, they refuse to share the log to fuel the dying fire and keep each other warm. Eventually, the fire dies out and in the morning all six of them are found frozen to death, each clutching, even in death, a log that could have so easily saved their lives of only they had over come the petty barriers of class, race and religion that divided them.
The poem is a simple yet powerfup reminder that if we selfishly hold on to the world's resources, and the wealth that it has to offer, if we persist in discriminating on ground of race, religion, caste, gender and ethnicity, we are all lost!
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