To The Living in Loneliness
Those who receive empty words from the preacher, those whose conservative and traditional values of living, values to him not defined as conservative or traditional, just the right way of living, those whose words of his mom and dad are not respected, those ridiculed by the liberal elite, the NPR elite, the Washington elite, to the person who is looked down as stupid and dumb from men and women with long noses having no value, these are the people of our country.
The person subject to physical and emotional abuse, the person whose job is a dead-end job, the person struggling to pay the rent, feed the children, the person whose children are victims of a failing school system in so many forms are the core of this country.
We live no differently from the serf, the peasant of the feudal ages. With one difference, there is. We today know and have experienced the taste of freedom.
The person living in loneliness, the person fearing the future, the person asking what happens to me when I die, the person with no friends, the person whose voice is not heard, this person is the core of our country.
The person entangled in the judicial system because of failure to pay medical bills, or bills arising from the purchase of that necessary to live, to survive, the person caught in the middle of what America is said to be and what it is, this person is the core of our country.
The person who is a veteran, of the army, navy, air force, marine, having seen the facts of the world going home to a country ignorant of these facts, the person who is denied fairness due to a disability, the person living these ways being many separate and kept away from the few taking their labor’s fruits to buy a yacht, this person is the core of our country.
Life is precious. Time is fleeting. Let us get moving.
The wicked lay in wait as the lion with the sheep their prey. The lion being the few, the rich. The sheep being the many, the creators of the rich.
To me the answer is to end the church as it exists enslaving, with the few, the people with ignorance, with a theology, a patriotic theology, the thinking man making no sense. The Islamic religion as stated and practiced like the church is a far cry from the teachings of their founder, Mohammed.
Our country is not the best country, but it does contain the best of hope. I will not let this hope be trampled upon.
People we worship live under false oaths. The powerful conspire, freely engaging in crime. They hide in ambush like the lion.
We have a duty to the fatherless. To the orphan/ To the poor. Our duty is a devotion to stand in the way of those, pretending and saying otherwise, ignoring the poor, the people who live and work making our day what it is today.