The Cold Within
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire
He noticed one was black.
The next man looking ‘cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.
James Patrick Kinney
The poet above was a man who believed, and saw the VALUE in, and of, everyone! He was TOLERANT of differences, as it SHOULD BE! He LIVED in TRUTH, and FOR TRUTH, regardless! I have ever revered this work, therefore, I admire the person who wrote it, as it IS THE IDEAL of LOVE, and principle!!!
It IS SO disheartening to notice how far from TRUTH we HAVE gone! Today we witness an amazing push to deny others, to cancel others, and to play games with the value of human existence! In but a few short years, hatred, intolerance, disregard, and absolute contention towards most, and mostly everything has exploded, and expanded throughout the world, in which case, times are becoming ever more difficult for ALL of us! There is little rationale, instead, emotion, and egotism raging, ruling, and ruining!!!
The SAD truth IS that we ARE ABLE TO change all of this, and head back to a place where people realize we ARE ALL IN this TOGETHER, AND that we ARE MORE ALIKE than not! A place where LOVE IS THE EXEMPLAR, therefore, the STANDARD! A place INTENDED for us, indeed...
Of course, it begins with *GOD*, which in this age is scorned, yet is EVER TRUTH!!!
Tears fall from my eyes nearly everyday for the state of humankind, for we are SO LOST in the darkness, it SEEMS unlikely that we might find LIGHT, but then again, NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE LORD *GOD*, however, the few who invoke HIM are imperative in this quest...
At any rate, it is awful to see that SO many have CHOSEN to exist in a hatred which IS hell bent on destruction for others, and the aggression which destroys us! We MUST EVER BE REMINDED of our vulnerabilities, and our untold time limit, as well as the FACT that we are NOT alone, hence, we are dependent upon *GOD*, whether anyone wants to accept that or not, HE WILL make it clear, and ALL WILL bow before HIM, now, or later!!!
LOVE HAS WAXED COLD, STILL THERE IS HOPE, SINCE THERE IS *GOD*, and SOME who KNOW HIM, and ARE ONE WITH HIM!!!
LWINSOR © 2021
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