A Dose Of Love Feeds Pleads To Be Heard Poem by John Sensele

Despite our own struggles inner and outer, visible and invisible
Let's go on, loving, caring, making a difference
In our families, communities and cities where feasible
Whether in reference to their struggles or during a conference

To eat caviar, drink champagne or discuss how to mitigate
The plight of the voiceless, the choiceless, the hapless
On whom fate has heaped hunger and thirst at their gate
Where perennial Hell seems a ceaseless

Straitjacket from which they can't wriggle free
Whether to sleep, weep, creep or keep the faith
We enjoin them to cherish underneath a mango tree
That can no longer bear fruit in the wake of water dearth

Brought about by human insensitivity, polluting the air and water bodies
That propel water cycles and green plant processes including photosynthesis
To enable life and food webs to proceed apace despite polluted water eddies
From which emerge horrors and terrors whose synthesis

Spews disaster
Spells gloom
Slays happiness and bliss faster
And on obdurate humankind bestows doom with no maneuver in her revenge room

Unless we come through offering to heal our broken world
Working beyond the normal call of duty to feed the hungry
Accommodating the swirled and hurled
Whether we're happy, moody or angry

Endeavouring to do the least but delivering the best shot
Effacing our needs to plant hope seeds
Loving in a consistent manner, blowing neither cold nor hot
So that in the end every aching heart receives a dose of love feeds.