Toward The Cliff

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  Laura🌻 March 20th, 2023 17:26

  Dear Kurt,
  
  “to those innocent souls
  Who locked in his footsteps
  —will never be whole”
  
  So much damage is being done to our children.
  
  Laura 🌻

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    Kurt Philip BehmMarch 21st, 2023 10:27

    Irreversible damage I'm afraid.

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  Kurt Philip Behm March 20th, 2023 17:45

  Yes, and much is irreversible.
  
  Tragic indeed.

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    Laura🌻March 20th, 2023 17:51

    😢

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  L. B. Mek March 21st, 2023 03:38

  word that hit home, dear Poet
  sad to contemplate
  just how much horror, we can't fathom
  is a child's reality, in this very minute..
  whatever universe, deity or chance
  denotes our tendrils of fate
  I only ask, why?
  why must children suffer, to what purpose
  is there no other way to forge a person
  without suffering
  must strife n pain, be our life's conductors
  even if so, can we at least
  grant children a reprieve, at least
  till they're old enough to make informed choices..
  just breaks my heart, to contemplate
  oft
  when I'm at my lowest, i remember these lines from a song by India Arie:
  'Off in the back country of Brazil
  A met a young brother that made me feel
  That I could accomplish anything
  (You see, just like me, he wanted to sing)
  (He had) no windows and no doors
  He lived a simple life and was extremely poor
  On top of all of that, he had no eyesight
  (But that didn't keep him from seein' the light)
  (He said) what's it like in the USA?
  And all I did was complain
  (He said) living here is paradise
  He taught me paradise is in your mind; you know that...
  There's hope
  It doesn't cost a thing to smile
  You don't have to pay to laugh'

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  Kurt Philip Behm March 21st, 2023 10:30

  Amen and beautiful ...
  
  The callousness and greed of the modern world has shut off
  all the major portals of perception that used to get taught and
  passed down. The best of us is now what used to be the worst
  of us .... SAD