Let Us Find a Better Way

These times we know are saddening. These times we know are hard.
Our faith in life is being attacked and it will leave a permanent scar.
Our minds are crying for what we’ve lost and what we’ve had taken away.

Our ancestors fought and died for our democracy and payed with so much loss. A debt that we will never be able to repay.
Their blood was spilled in the hope that for the sake of humanity we could find a and live together in a better way.

New horizons inspire deeper depths for learning and understanding in so many different ways.

The history of life echoes a recurring warning to each and every single one of us, every single day...

Open minds create mankind’s most beautiful desires and thoughts and challenge us to find and live in more harmonious ways.

Closed minds contain the fuel of hate and create a cold dead space of lost, unchartered ways.

It’s down to us to take each other by the hand and to learn from mankind’s mistakes.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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