Many Things Make Me Sad Poem by Della Perry

Many things make me sad or cry,
A You Tube video of Palestinian school children being hit
And grabbed by their hair
Absolutely terrified of their carer
While someone recording this laughs at their sobs of fear.
A photograph of a drowned refugee child on the sand
Face down and cold.
The poet, a homeless man whose brothers found him
Through social media
Because one lady cared enough to converse with him
A lonely, dirty old man on the street.
Puppies dragged from a river
Who were thrown in to be disposed of like rubbish!
So many, cry for sadness,
Cry for happiness too
Sometimes there are good times.
But my favourite reason today
Was the rainbow that appeared
Through shadowy clouds
Through the darkness
As dusk developed
With a special band of pink light
I have never seen before
Next to the sun's last rays of light
Shooting it's hues to the earth below.