The Wake Of Destruction Poem by Laurence Overmire

The world would be a far better place
If decisions were based upon
What is good for humanity, instead of
What is good for the bottom line.

How difficult would it be -
To shift our way of thinking?

Revolutionary.
A complete reversal of fortune.

But it is after all
What the future requires
Our selfish commodities no longer
Worth the price.

The world is much smaller than it used to be
The old ways of ignoring those around us
Prevent us now from seeing the truth

Of who we are and must become.

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in Poetry Soul to Soul, April 2002)