If My Life Dares To Care Poem by John Sensele

If my life preaches the gospel and enriches another soul
If my life by its kindness and meekness should attain the goal
Of minimizing loneliness, maximizing happiness
By its thoughts, its plans and its actions my life would proclaim success.

If my life should dog and flog others by its opulence
If my life should revolt at affluence and transport positive influence
To raise hope where despair and despondency
Hold sway, my life would scale a reward constituency.

If my life attracts sorrow and steals tomorrow
From vulnerable souls, from street children lying in a furrow
Whose bed is a carton box with no blankets in chills of June
My life wouldn't fly or sigh in high spirits to the moon.

If my life should smuggle love into broken hearts
Wallowing in abject poverty while I roll carts
Teeming with junk food in a mood of vanity
My life would swim in a brook of shame in my vicinity.