Endure

My sister Donna, Mom, sister MaryAnn. All mothers who lovingly endure life's challenges.

Endure

7/19/11

How much life feels like purgatory

can be a barometer of happiness

and joy taken from mundane activities,

whether working hard in hot sun,

making dinner for hungry family, oneself,

doing laundry, paying bills, cleaning house,

often it's just accepting aging process

more difficult the older we get,

extremely so for mother near 88

where health becomes crisis to bear

while mind runs amok playing tricks,

and fear is companion when alone

with death seeming nearer for her

than those youthfully seeking any distraction

to counterbalance despair in crazy world,

which for thousands of tortuous years

has served up madness to masses

as distorted human beings rape Earth,

defile one another through war, greed,

so out of balance they're blinded

by desperate fight for basic survival,

unable to grasp self-inflicted group misery

born of racism, sexism, religious fanaticism,

classism, building of military industrial complex

so prevalent as to deter visions

of peaceful future we'd lovingly endure.