Nothing's New Poem by Carolyn Brunelle

Nothing's new
from across the world
details of nature's wrath
man's stupidities
governmental attempts to control it all
religion's cheeky responses
protestations, edicts, apologies
names muddied in exposed shame
lives destroyed, shock and loss
wars and rumors of same.
On and on it goes and
it shows in every broadcast
man is the same as always
fraught with his own failings
weaknesses, corruptions, ignorance;
all the while innocents pay the prices.
Life no longer spins on a dime
but by a throw of the dice
yet the people grow and flourish
love still shines
through the cracks
and
there is a God after all.