ACCURACY?

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QUESTIONS

For the first time,

Since the "Dawning of Man",

When counting the Dead and the Living,

That we, NOW, have reached the point…



Where the living…out number the dead.



When did we pass that fragile threshold,

How did we overcome infant mortality,

How did we overcome polio, tuberculosis, famine,

When did we start surviving floods, tornados, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes…

In higher record numbers?

And how can this be accurate,

When we choose to infect ourselves with AIDS…



When did we give Cancer…THE DETOUR?



And yet, we still KILL…

How many wars, over at times, SCRAPS of land?

How many millions have died in domestic squabbles,

How many of those were CHILDREN?



When will an industry rise, and say,



         WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO LIVE…

         LIVE LIFE WITH NO WORRIES…

         NO OPPRESSION…

         NO VIOLENCE….

         NO CATASTROPHE…



Instead of the industry that gouges the living to bury their--





DEAD?





When it "takes" all of the money some people have…

Even after sizeable hospital bills…that are NOT paid…

    Because their loved one dies in a drive by shooting.



How can they say, the living now out number the dead…

When the victimization is never ending?



How many crucifixions will there be of innocense?



BEFORE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND…



…the living are already dead…

…and the dead are living...



because death has all to kindly set them free.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Life is so hard on some people...we worry about Quality of Life issues with the sick, lame, disabled...did anyone ask them?  Why are we so quick to turn off respirators when persons are dibilitated by accidents into vegetative states?  How can one person say, that a friend isn't already there...at that point...inside their head...from where all quality of life springs?  You can't live in another's mind, and what makes us want to preserve this, saying that another person isn't in the "right frame of mind" to make such decisions.  Why is there the assumption, that during crisis, there is no clarity?  Just something to think about...And in this same frame of thinking...does one assume there are more good people in the world than bad, or vice versa?  When is optimism a downfall?  When is pessimism a saving grace?

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