A NEW YEAR’S DAY THOUGHT (weekly poem)

A NEW YEAR’S DAY THOUGHT

We share this Earth as common ground,

And yet there is a great divide;

The things we humans need abound,

And yet our little worlds collide.

The wealthy grab more from the poor,

And governments abet that theft;

Society fragments the more,

And more and more are left bereft.

And thus we have black versus white,

And women execrating men;

Crude nationalists who want to fight,

And hatred goes around again.

Humanity could disappear,

That common fear should bind us all;

A future hell is looming near,

We must wake up before the fall.

© Richard Layton