Stripped

Scottish veterans of World War II honoring the fallen at World War I monument.

Isle of Mull, Scotland

Stripped

3/18/10

Life takes us down

then lifts back up

depending any given mood

effected by thoughts entering,

and there's the economy,

numbers in bank account

bills on the table

which challenge anyone's sanity

around sense of worth,

what really has value,

when one's individual soul,

heart, mind, and body,

are seen as expendable,

less than, when scrutinized

coming up woefully short

to upper echelon criteria,

the folks making rules

about what progress is,

it's sad world state

that enable debilitating wars

providing poverty, hunger, insecurity,

footholds when not necessary,

wounding, crippling us all,

wherein from manmade distortions

people are robbed blind,

yet somehow find courage,

hope, faith, fortitude, resources,

inner sight seeing 'Spirit',

with everything stripped away.