When?
When did it become the norm?
To sell votes for favors……
to sell salvation for dollars…..
to degrade children
allowing them to fall through the cracks
lost and alone
while their parents are terrorized?
When?
When did time change so much?
That morals sit in the bin
taken out with the trash?
That freedoms fought so hard for
lives lost
widows made
can be torched in a moment?
When?
When did truth become a slippery slope?
When did mans lies become legitimate facts?
When did the values, the mores I remember
become so archaic
that they no longer can be found?
I weep for those times passed
mourning the loss of simpler times
when the world was not threatening to shatter.
Jay-lyn Doerksen
©May 25/18
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So profound and sad, but dead on in terms of the truth. I’d like to think the day will come when we see the errors or our ways, but I wonder if that’s being overly optimistic
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I am hoping not. I hope that the innate goodness of humankind will win out but like yourself I fear that it may not.
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This is one of the most powerful and thought-provoking posts I have read despite its brevity.
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Thank you.
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Thank you
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Fantastic use of the prompt!!! It is sad to admit that values have become archaic but it’s true….💔
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Thank you. It took all day for me to figure it out. I knew what I wanted to say it was how to say it.
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It was fantastic 😁❤️
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