Madness Has No Holiday
Spirit
By Bob B (12-17-14)
Our holidays here are no
guarantee
That sadness and suffering will
not pay a visit
To some part of this mixed-up
world.
It's incomprehensible. Tell me,
what is it
That drives killers to massacre
children
At a school in Pakistan? Can't we
expect
Our schools to provide a haven of
safety
That murder and violence cannot
infect?
Two years ago at Sandy Hook
A slaughter occurred for a different
reason.
Madness cruelly and completely
ignores
The spirit of any holiday season.
The mind obsessed with revenge is
dangerous--
So is the mind poisoned with
rules,
Haughty morals and warped
"truths"
That cater a dastardly feast for
fools.
Does irrationality rule the
world?
Explanations seem a futility.
Kindness, goodness, and fairness
must balance
With crazed minds and hateful
hostility.
Safety itself is an illusion--
A wished-for notion; a deceptive
disguise;
A mental construct that placates
the hopeful,
Tricks the unwary, deludes the
unwise.
When religion stifles and doesn't
expand
And open the seeker's heart and
mind,
The world becomes a hollow
place--
Scary and threatening, cold and
unkind.
By Bob B (12-17-14)
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