(Stock image. Image description: A photograph of earth, is seen from the vantage point of space. Blue oceans, swirling clouds, continents in tan, amber tones and greens – stretch across the globe.)
Arise
This week
Humans in space
Even the cosmos
Planning to place human feet
On other planets
Exploration now
While greedy
national powers
debate future
war
And peace
Amid the stars
Here
And here
Refugees on the terra
Displaced
People of no territory at all
No shelter
No safety
No food
No known future
This week
Worshippers in Germany
On a holy day
Targeted by violence
By a not-rogue-enough remnant
Of the past
Tied to
Too common threads
Of hate
This week
workers
were microchipped
willingly
Their bodies
marked
By commerce
And technology
(Has anyone paused to
think on the future implications?)
This week
Thousands
Gather
To fight extinction
Shutting down the streets
Crying out for change
Self-preservation
This week mental health
Was lifted up
Yet thousands remain
Isolated
people don’t
look up
on the train
This week
A narcissist
Erratically gambles lives
Again
For personal gain
He lies
And lies
And lies
And the pure of heart cry out
And shout
and pray
Do you not feel the birth pangs
Of creation?
Her timing
Closer and closer together
Space and time
Constricted together
Yet
The new creation
Is not yet here
Creation crying out for
The Creator
The Righteous One
The Prince of peace
Mighty God
The God of justice
To come
Oh the nations cry
Out
All Creation groans
For the children of God to arise
Light the Lamp 