Troubled
Woke up to an empty house
Troubles in this world
troubling my soul
Down by the water
should cheer me up
I’m searching for those messages
Flowers planted along Sunset Drive
Some still holding summer’s smile
others faded and shrivelled
I wish the eagles would come and chase away
my melancholy
Container ship passing by
What will it take to wean us from some of our comforts
so that others would be less poor?
Just giving up a cup of coffee causes major
upheaval in my head and heart
A tree is cut down
apparently because the roots are pulling up the sidewalk
Why don’t they just move the sidewalk?
They do in India
Inconvenient, yes, but spares the life of a tree
What is life worth to us anyways?
I feel we are mixed up about that question
I remember a wise man once said
“one’s life does not consist
in the abundance of his possessions”
He was warning us about greed
It’s a time in history again
where we need to be inconvenienced
stretched and changed
It is a time to value life and protect it
Desperate refugees
Unborn children
Trees
Our very planet
What will we do?
Will we listen to the voices of the wise
or close our ears and hearts
and hope it will all go away?
Oh, it will all go away
Quickly if we don’t do something
about our destructive ways
Life is fragile
delicate as
a butterfly’s wings
yet resilient
able to heal and restore
Let’s not push things beyond
the limit here
We still have time
© 2015 Julie Clark
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