That is the question

 That is the question

At the very moment, we are conceived a

timer will begin, counting down day by day

until the very end, how much time do we

have? No one really knows, so use the time

that you are given and help each other out,

because life is hard down here on earth as

we struggle every day finding food and water

and shelter just to lay your head, with hate

and violence taking place in every land from

sea to shining sea, coming from ignorance

which is caused by nothing more than fear

that is fed from our own human stupidity,.

To be or not to be is the question that I

struggle with every single day as I watch in

terror all of humankind trying so hard to kill

itself while destroying humanity, we talk of

peace around the world but never will it be

because we must first and foremost find

peace within ourselves a very Nobel thought

indeed, but alas I know that it shall always

remain just a dream that we will never see,

human emotions conflict with peace it is

something we cannot deny as we were made

to survive by any means live our life and breed,

jealousy, greed, hate, and anger are just a few

of our emotions and there are many more but

just those few are enough to show you what

I mean, with every tick upon the clock a grain

of sand will fall, each one just another reminder

we do not have much time at all, I have seen

the bad and the good with everything in between

I have felt the pain of hate and anger and

have given it back in return times three, I have

felt the wraith of a woman's scorn and there

has been a woman I have burned, been to war

across the world and was shot by an angry man

so I shot back with all I had killing many men

I have seen man rise up into the sky as

he tries to touch the sun just as rockets fell back

to earth destroying everyone, so I will ask the

question again "to be or not to be" but I still

cannot answer yet maybe one day we shall see,

there is one thing I have not told you that might

make you feel less pain as there are two words

you should know and they are faith and hope two

things we cannot live without a man. Hope is all

that is left when we have nothing else when all

looks lost and you have nothing else to hang hope

will get you through the night turning the darkness

into the light, you must have faith in our God that he

will hear our prayers to help us fight all that is bad

and fill our hearts with love. So even though things

look bad around the globe with pandemics now

the norm we have seen it all before yet here we stand

today, so do not give up on hope and prayer for we will

all walk out of the storm one day.

Poet Richard M Knittle Jr.

A Poet's Journey

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