How To Inspire? Poem by Shalom Freedman

HOW TO INSPIRE?

How to inspire
In a time and world so charged with threat of violence?
How to inspire in a time
When Evil multiplies
And unimaginable cruelty is commonplace?

How to inspire now
When all seems so difficult so dark so impossible to know a clear path through?

How to inspire
When the sadness and distress and worry and fear within oneself
Are so great?

How to inspire when one oneself is so uninspired
How to inspire
When one knows this is the right thing to do
And yet is so lost and uninspired oneself?