The Same Medicine Poem by Patti Masterman

Give you god, the same medicine
Then see what you have to say of pessimism;
Today, maybe luck, but tomorrow, not-?
Random chance, or inheritance?

Fires, floods, ethnic cleansing,
Atrocities, droughts and pestilence,
Air pollution and befouled water,
Mad cow, vehicular manslaughter.

Religious inbreeding, sexual assault-
Pick your poison, choose your rot;
Every good has evil inside it,
Every virtue a secret sin.