“I Watched the News Today”
It’s hard to imagine
The world beyond
Our own little place
With nothing around
Where birds sing
Snakes slither
With mist rising
Beyond the green canopy
That surrounds and isolates
And insulates
All that is outside.
Is it an illusion?
Or is it real?
The pictures on the screen
Gives a lie to what I see.
Nuclear war?
Bridge collapse?
Child murdered?
War in far places?
What does it mean?
It seems so far removed
From the natural world I see.
It must be false
As my senses and mind
Can’t comprehend such beauty here
And ugliness there.
I close my eyes and see darkness
I open them and see God’s creation.
So, why did I watch the news today?
29th May 2002, Townsend, Tennessee, United States of America.
-Richard
