Animal Rights, Spiritual and Inspirational poetry that touch the heart and soul, and provoke the mind.
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music
which he hears, however measured or far away.”
— Henry David Thoreau
We the people
of the United States,
so accustomed
to freedom
and independence,
so accustomed
to marching to our own
individual drummers,
are very slowly
awakening
to a reality
where
health and sickness,
life and death,
depend on
our thinking
and acting
interdependently —
where everything
we do or don’t do
has ripple effects
that touch many others.
Not since
World War II
has our survival
as individuals and
as a nation
depended so much
on working together
for a common cause.
Can we restrain
our impulses
to “do our own thing?”
Can we think of others
as much as
we think of ourselves?
I hope and pray
that we can.
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