Challenge
Challenge of the Week CXLIII
The Trajectory. Is the trajectory of humanity a good one? Is the world getting better or worse? Is life improving or deteriorating? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
Grace
Trying to take it all in,
hurts sometimes.
The divisiveness,
the disparity,
the hate,
anger,
suffering,
outside my door
overwhelms me.
Violence which rips
your heart out,
sickens me.
I want to turn away.
It is too much.
I doubt we can endure.
But then,
I feel a softer, smaller
hand cover mine.
“It is going to be fine,”
he tells me
in a tone mature
beyond his ten years.
The compassion in his eyes
gives credence to his words.
The world is a better place
Because my hope
lives in it.
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