What Do I Value?
Accounting For Suffering & Injustice
Healing
Young minds with numb hearts
Society is throwing pressure like darts,
It’s obvious the world isn’t milk and honey -
We can only ever be so lucky.
Yet it still takes me by surprise,
Hearing desperate cries disturbing my empathy filled eyes.
And although pain fits like a glove
It’s eventually worn down by the luxury of love
And is displaced by love and grace
For healing takes time – it’s not a race.
- Meagan
There is a discouraging amount of suffering and injustice in the world. What this poem is saying is that we can overcome the suffering of the world by replacing it with love. In Social class, we have learned about the injustice in other countries, such as outsourcing, slavery, and the suffering of working class families earning $1-$3 a day. I believe that by providing the world with love, we could make up for parts of what we have lost.
