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What right have we?

5/27/2017

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It turned out to be a meditation, not a story.
What right have we to love
While weddings turn to funerals?

What right have we to live
While babies drown at sea?

What right have we to eat
While others starve in darkness?

What right have we to peace
While millions flee from war?

What right have we to live
If not to help our neighbors?

Sing it. Say it. Do it.

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Nancy Wilson
8/19/2017 09:55:14 am

Hi Jo, I'm a fellow writer on Don'tcallitbollywood. Really enjoy your posts by the way. Yes, we are of a similar age and generation. I see you also write poetry. So do I. Would appreciate your response on one of my poems - written below.

WHY?

Freedom is not free they say, but why do young men have to pay?
Do we not look at our own sins, must we view all through conflict's lens?
We live, we die upon this earth, searching for a new rebirth.
If one life is all we're given, what makes mankind so harshly driven?
To live in peace should be our goal, trying not to destroy every living soul.
Beneath it all, we're all the same, you and I, we are to blame.

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Jo
8/21/2017 06:46:42 pm

Welcome, Nancy! Glad you found me over here. I wish I were as prolific and faithful a blogger as Margaret. I am trying, though. I love the sentiment in your poem, and it is very lyrical. Have you even written songs? Mine don't rhyme, but they really just come to me as phrases. It's a recent thing. I used to write one every ten years or so, but the last few years, they have been showing up more frequently.

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