11/6/2024 for ADDRESSING THE WORLD WITH YOUR DIVINE GIFT Poetry Contest sponsored by Janice Meddars Tobechi
The world is savage, punishing and hard. We experience more than we can bear. While not a one of us comes out unscarred, it isn't even anything like fair. We long for a bit of recognition for precious things we offer up and share. We all rate. Life's not a competition. There is little reason we must compare. We all need empathy, we try so hard. When the world plunges us into despair, and the life given us we would discard, we must find someone on the earth to care. A lake presided o'er by mystic elves, this world is but a mirror of ourselves.
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