EMJOY BEING KIND TO EACH ONE WE WILL MEET FOR THE REST OF OUR DAYS

Possessing deepest Compassion is expertise Outranking any

Without compassion For every living being Our lives make no sense

Before Rome declined Emperors entertained all Obfuscating thought

Glowing fireflies Once providing eventide’s Joy no longer found

Into extinction* Or simply gone farther south? We wonder of birds *E. Wilson and other scientists caution 99% of all species on Earth have fallen into extinction.

We are truly old When our fears of death exceed One new dream each day

Love of planet Earth Can’t exceed our unflagging Devotion to Christ

Earth who gave us birth “We are destroying it”*while Planning one more war** *”What is the world? We are destroying it.”(Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke, p.62) **George Bush ignores the Methodist church of which he is a member, world opinion, apart from Israel and Britain to call for unilateral invasion of Iraq [...]

Returning to God Exceeds our retirement here Where Truth does not reign