Uniting for a Better Future: Healing Our Nation & Creating Prosperity

G'Afternoon Ostomates, I ran across this on YouTube and wanted to share... It was a reply from the above title by Rev. Rich Conrod.

Lets come together, Republicans and Democrats, Muslims, Christians, and Jews. People of all colors, Black Lives Matter Movement

and all other good people whose hope for a better day has increasingly been dashed away, join together to remove the corruption and all its enablers in the 2020 election purge.

Then let us heal the nation in 2021 from the ravages of Covid-19 and poverty, from the bigotry of power politics and from the history of honoring the Confederate Treason

that destroyed lives. Let's pause to reflect on a nation of 245 years that placed wealth above people, so that we can begin the next 245 years with justice and prosperity

for all. Let's create green new industries that all may drink clean water, be gainfully employed, have adequate health care, and arise a nation on the principle that no individual shall

endure life without the basics of liberty to pursue one's hopes and dreams.

I personally found this to be quite interesting due to the current conditions in the world.... I wrote it exactly as the Rev did.

Take care,

Angelicamarie

Angelicamarie, well said. I wish everyone could think like this man does. Thanks for posting it.

Laurie

Thanks for posting this. The world cannot prosper the way things are going with everyone pulling against each other. There has got to be some change.

Hello Angelicamarie. 

Thank you so much for drawing this to our attention. Even though it is stated in an americanised format, it is all so very pertinent to what is happening across the world. I will try to find time to write a rhyme encapsulating a similar sentiment .

Best wishes

Bill 

ALL LIVES MATTER.

A sad, bad world that we live in,
where judgement comes by way of skin,
or some other difference
where people have a preference.

Black and white, yellow or pink,
the colour of your skin I think
should not be a deciding thing
whether you’re pauper or a king.

It seems to me, the human race
has rarely managed to keep pace
with their moral obligation
regarding human integration.

There is a narcissistic streak,
of which these humans rarely speak,
and this propels them selfishly
to think and act uncaringly.

To act with impropriety
within human society
seems to have become the norm
and it’s high-time we had reform.

It seems endemic in the mind
of our present humankind,
that it might be acceptable
to be unkind and horrible.

But I believe there is a force
that may yet get us back on course
to start to put the world to rights
if all good people stand and fight.

Those who are inconsiderate,
and those who wish to dominate
should be controlled and managed so
we have a better way to go.

                                       B. Withers 2020

Hello Angelicamarie. 

You got me thinking by your latest post - so I thought you deserved a second rhyme to complement the first.

Best wishes

Bill

ALL LIFE MATTERS.

Some may believe that humans’ might,
somehow have got a given right
to be abusive everyday
just so they may get their way.

They are abusive to each other,
even with own sister and brother,
so, when it comes to folk they hate
they will be bullies and predate.

They become hunters, and their prey
are weaker folk or things that may
be overcome by rule of force
where bullies can dictate the course.

These bullies will have no respect
for lives of others and expect
victims to be subservient,
slave-like and obedient.

They do not feel that they are wrong
and have been like this for so long
they think that it’s a natural state
for them to rule and dominate.

They will think little when they kill
another creature which may still
be living in its own domain
without their hassle and their pain.

But bullies tend to ideate
the notion to intimidate
as the only way to go
and the only way they know.

All things living on the Earth
deserve respect because they’re worth
just as much as bullies are,
so, should be treated on a par.

                                         B. Withers 2020

Thanks, Bill for two more works of art to nourish our souls.  Hope our heads don't prevent this.

Mike

Ya' know Laurie, we do have choices.  Unfortunately politeness, kindness, generosity, compassion and goodness of any sort seems to be equated with weakness.  To me those exact same characteristics require strength.  Am I nuts?  You and Angel certainly are not.  

Thanks for your thoughts,

Mike

No, Mike. You aren't nuts. Unfortunately, the world can be, at least some of the time. Yes, I agree that those "good" traits are indicative of strength. Thanks for saying that out loud. That took strength, and it makes me feel that hope is not lost. See? You're being the change you wish to see in the world. Thank you.

Laurie

You are too kind Laurie.  Thank you.

Sincerely,

Mike