Moving The Needle
Updated: Feb 13, 2022
We’re losing out there,
us people.
Ant’s in a maze.
Puppets on a string
We’re losing hope
We’re losing trust
We’re losing the fight
The lies were told
The lives that never grow old
Another pawn in a game
Another one of us sacrificed
for someone else’s gain
It’s an ugly world,
when you zoom out.
If you zoom-in,
into the individual,
or a community,
and you watch a child's christmas play,
as your son sings off key,
with a big smile on his face,
and your daughter looks up to him
with pride in her eyes,
that's good
That’s beautiful
That’s what it means to be human.
When you take that same lens,
and zoom-out,
outside of your personal life,
outside your community,
when you hear the rumors of how bad the world is,
when you stay ignorant to it,
when you shrug your shoulders
and just accept it as what it is,
we lose the fight.
You ought try to move the needle,
just a little bit,
while you can.
Try to move it towards goodness
Towards love
Towards understanding
and wisdom.
There is not much wisdom
in the nihilism of our current culture.
Not speaking up against injustices,
can lead us down a path,
of death
and desperation.
Soon,
no one will be allowed to speak,
except for those
who pull
the strings…
The fight is now.
It's your turn
to try to move the needle,
that rest in the middle
between
good
and evil.
-C.H.