Let us not become jaded
With reports of senseless violence
Brought to us in living color
Real time action like virtual reality
Worn across our eyes
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Let us not become jaded
Thinking all is lost and evil has won
Don’t believe it do not fear
Brother helps sister when danger is near
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Let us not become jaded
For love is not lost / truth will triumph
Tragedy brings unity
Realizing what is really important
We stand arm in arm and hand in hand
Knowing that in the end
Love Wins!
Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Open link night at d’Verse. It is easy to become jaded with all that happens in the world around us. I have revised this piece from a couple of years ago, to remind us that truth is light and love is truth and Love wins!
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Love this. And so true.
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Thank you so much!
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Dwight, I have been glued to the news. I haven’t yet written anything about yesterday’s events. I will, but I don’t promise that it will be nearly as good as this poem! ❤ All the best!
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Thank you Cheryl… don’t sell yourself short! You do very well in everything you post!
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Your mouth to G*d’s ear.
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Or perhaps the other way around!! Thank you for you comment!
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Amen, Dwight!
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Thank you Eugenia!
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Yes! It’s hard not to be jaded and it is a real risk with the media always bombarding sad images our way. We all have to lift each other up. 💕
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I find it so easy to get to the place where I do not what to hear any more of the confusion and division and hate!
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Yes, it gets old. I could never be a journalist who has to report on it all day.
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I know!! That is why i call them “talking heads!”
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Ah, very uplifting and supportive! How beautiful and true, we need each other now more than ever. ❤ ❤
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Yes that is for sure! Thank you for your kind comment.
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Of course I am not sure of the exact events, but from what I see on the news here in Australia, this has been a dreadful slight on the democratic voting system… and thoroughly incited by the loser “Trump”… who seems to forget he won by a narrower margin back 4 years ago…. I won’t say too much, but from from what I can see, he’s a very manipulative man, and uses desention/ bordering on hatred, against minority groups to cause divisions with America’s communities ((very much like Hitler did))… and with these wedges in place, he’s able to have protests against his disgusting tactics down-trodden by his powerful media backers…..whoops… said too much !!
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I think you have recapped our situation all too well Ivor. It is so sad to see this kind of think occurring! Within all that are anarchists on both sides of the political divide. Hopefully we can learn from this as we begin a new administration. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
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I’m a long way from American politics, but I’m afraid is nearly too obvious not to see.. !!
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With satellite technology, the whole world watches in real time… both good and bad!
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Hopeful words, Dwight. Keep sharing the light. 🌟
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I will try!
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Jade is so hard to avoid in these troubled / troubling times. Love wins, you say? Oh, let it be so.
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I believe we should all work toward that end! Thank you!
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Each of us feels what we need to feel, when we need to feel it. We aren’t machines with switches. I have no doubt something good will spring from yesterday’s actions but it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t feel sorrow today.
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oh, I agree completely… and perhaps some righteous indignation! Thank you Lisa
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You’re welcome.
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So timely, Dwight
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Thank you Derrick! Our job is to remain relevant in these times.
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Right on, Dwight!
Yes…love, compassion, hope are so strong they can, and will, win!
(((HUGS))) 🙂
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It seems to be a constant battle of good and evil. We must not let it overwhelm us. Thank you very much!
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thanka for shedding light on this with such a positive spin. It’s who we are, it’s what we need to do. I’m still a little shell shocked if I’m to be completly honest. ❤️Cindy
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There are always extremists and anarchists among us on both sides of the political divide! Why they feel the need to tear down and overthrow, I don’t understand. The preparation for security was just not there, some think intentionally!
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It’s so true Dwight and I tend to agree about security … I mean hello where were the arrests with cameras everywhere.. hmmm. My Fri Yay Funday post isn’t that fun today.. 🙏❤️❤️🙏
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A) This is lovely.
B) You are such a positive person – I love that.
C) AMEN!
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Thank you David. I find I really don’t like myself when I become negative and judgmental!
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If we become jaded then the haters win. Well said, Dwight!
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Yes! Thank you Ingrid!
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Beautiful thoughts Dwight!. It has an uncanny relevance though to a current event, the storming by the Trump supporters yesterday.!
Hank
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Seems to be the case! Thank you very much for your comment!
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Very inspiring, thanks for sharing.
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Thank you very much!
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The acceptance of brutality is the start of the slippery slope. Well said.
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We must always stand for what is right!
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We must, and cross fingers that we share the majority idea of what is right!
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Yes, it seems our truth is more opinion at times.
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We all think we’re right after all 🙂
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Ha ha I believe you are right…. :>)
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🙂
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Sage advice, Dwight! 💝 It’s easy to become jaded and fall prey to hopelessness and despair at times like these. Which is why I am grateful for poetry! 🙂
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Thank you Sanaa. I love having a poetry community to share with in these times!
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A lovely poem
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I hope that’s true, Dwight, but history proves over and over that it often is not love that wins. Still we must keep affirming the good and fighting for it. (K)
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You may be right!
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Thank you for this. Definitely the required dose of hope for now.
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Yes, This too will pass!
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Truth will triumph and love wins. Yes!! I share your optimism, {{{Dwight}}}. ❤
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Thank you Jan!
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Hope wins!!!!
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never give up hope!!
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Despite the horror of the rampage, the fact that so many of Trump’s people resigned and condemned his contributions to the violence provides me with some hope…I could go on but won’t…thanks for the poem. Positivity and clear mindedness is well needed.
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Thank you Janice! It is so easy to jump on the stress train in times like this and get caught up on a runaway train of fear and anger!
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For sure … many of us are under a lot of stress these days.
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A message that needs to be heard by many.
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Thanks Ken!
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Amen, Dwight! 🙂
I really like the comparison of news on the tv being ” like virtual reality / Worn across our eyes.” It’s a bit of a paradox, and it is wise.
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Thank you so much. I find the news very disconcerting most of the time. and the talking heads on the cable News Channels are totally into drama rather than news. Very little reality just opinions and judgement!
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So true and so wonderful
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