Thoughts Thick & Thin Poem by John Sensele

When all around you values crash
Relationships reel, tears overflow
Open your eyes wide and don't rush
Lest best opportunities away from you should blow.

When all around you integrity withers
Blokes and blondes can't get along
To challenge the prude with modern bothers
It's time you sang for Mike a pacific song.

When all around you denial reigns supreme
HIV and AIDS decimate lives of productive cogs
In countries where communities blame
The pandemic on superstition, conclude ignorance lives on blogs.

When all around you walks a bevy of peacocks
Speaking like hot potatoes choke their speech
Kneel and pray hard for rocks
To crush prejudices and iniquities, lest you parachute into a deadly ditch.