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okay
i'm here
now what

people, people
i'm sick
to my stomach
of people
inconsiderate
center-of-the-universe
me-first
hard-hearted
people

and so
i am amazed
at the enormity
of your
long-suffering

for i have nothing
right
about me
and therefore
my ruler
is not true

yet you
are everything
that is right
and your
measurements
are just beyond
our knowing

i judge
and lack patience
i misinterpret
and am blinded
by my selfishness

you wait
across thousands
of years
hoping for change
watching as
we make the same
blunders
and compound
the old
tried and true
distortions
translating them
for our culture
and our times

again
i am amazed
and humbled

what am i to do
what am i to do

© 2006 (15 november) john r. chase


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