Everything Needs to Change

Our Mother is telling us

     everything needs to change;

  she is dying at the hands 

     of our neglectful actions.

Our communities are telling us

     everything needs to change;

  they are fracturing because 

     of our disunity.

Our neighbors are telling us

     everything needs to change;

  they are suffering from the lack 

     of human connection.

The Divine is telling us

     everything needs to change;

  God is weeping at the sound 

     of our hostility.

- bshivers