Lost

Have we lost our way in the dark

  thinking only of us, ourselves

  what is important only to me

Have we forgotten how to bind 

  the wounds, caring for another

  in service to our beat up neighbor

    giving more than we have to care

      

  opening our hearts and not passing

By on the other side, justified

    In or own rightness

Have we lost the capacity for healing

  telling the stories, rejoicing on the 

     bleakest of days and knowing

  others are there who understand

Do we always default to the old record

  song of us, ours, my rights

    or can we hear the pleas on silent

   wings as others die in our blindness

Can we remember to care

  can we hear the others cries

    can we open our hearts 

Listen, did we miss a revealing

  of the Divine

    in a stable

    in the cold

    in a place far from home

  scared of what is to come

A hope in vulnerability