Eligibility Factor

it can be a market crash a global outbreak it can be a Mount Saint Helen for me it was Northridge, California January 17th, 1994 I saw myself in the eyes of children hungry, shocked, confused clinging to mothers their reality and the earth both trembling underfoot I was given no script, no rules to follow all that was asked of me was empathy to understand, to be one of God's children to see nothing more became an eligibility factor one man came bruised, bludgeoned his stare a chisel to stone the truth echoing from his wife her face, her words the doors that he crumbled the force of his mission to save neighbors dozens if not more how he flew under media scrutiny sitting before me my heart the only thing between them and the miracle of sustenance I became severed then placed the gift of humanity squarely at their feet