Monday, July 7, 2025

Why, and when?


Why build a camp for children 
In a flash flood zone? 
And why fire the weather researchers 
Who might have warned them what was coming? 
Why mock the role of science, 
Which so often has saved lives? 
When did expediency, complacency, 
And greed become the new religion 
While empathy and compassion were left behind? 
I hold my sobbing daughter in my arms 
Gazing out into the rain 
As we weep together for children 
 And parents everywhere.

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