Merciful Milton

Paradise Lost kept rumbling through my head

As we watched Hurricane Milton storming toward

Our shaky shores

Is this how human beings pass on like the

Dinosaurs did, a climate change too difficult

For us to manage or handle?

No, Marjorie Taylor Green, no human or 

Political party controls the weather 

But, we do participate, all of us and our ancestors 

Before us, not just in judgment or shame but truthfully

This is how human beings have lived on this earth

For however many (controversial?) years we have 

Been here, living and dying in 3/4 time

Did Merciful Milton spare thousands and millions of

People and pets this go round? 

How many more will still die?

How shall we be decent human beings in the meantime?

Wondering and speculating has some purpose but so does

Feeling and acting loving toward one another all of the time

And not just during a climate disaster or storm

May we be blessed to live in this chaotic time as we

Bring peace and calm to ourselves and to the world

While we assist those who are suffering and in pain