Then how everything changes when I apologize

While tragedies are sung nightly and the obituaries read quite leisurely,

I am eating or drinking coffee or just laying dully relaxed.

Then how everything changes!

When I apologize to Hope for holding her back from those who quietly despair

Wrapped in their sorrows under a heavy blanket.

When I apologize to Necessity for not providing for her when she called on me.

When I apologize to Happiness for feasting on milk and honey with bread,

While others mire in weeping and wailing under the oppressing unforgiving hunger.

When I apologize to the needy for thinking their plight's a news report happening elsewhere.

When I apologize to Time for squandering her like water through my fingers.

When I apologize to Syria, I did forget you while caught up in my own selfishness.

Forgive me, for the wounds I caused you with my indifference.

When I apologize to Heaven for condemning them to the dark abyss of war.

When I apologize to Thirst for not rushing with water & sharing it with parched lips.

Then how everything changes when I apologize!