Arlene Corwin writes

So Many Angry People 

So many angry people:

Has it always been?

Everywhere?

Every culture?

Does it have to be?

Yes, key:

Does it really have to be?

Questions.

Though too few solutions:

Anger management; a shift 

Of (mental) values; 

Philosophic, helping books;

A charisma, or to pluralize,

A charismata; ‘favor, grace’

To erase

The many angry human beings,

Living in the phase

Of climate change and holocaust,

Confused and forced

In some wide-spreading lost horizon.

It’s a madness.

And the sadness

Reaches hearts like mine.

You, dear reader, gifted, fine,

Good and all things understanding,

Keep on going toward the light

With patience, optimism and without

The smallest microbe of defeat.

 

 

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