Is thinking sufficient

to turn us around

 

Cerebral in nature

as problems surround

 

For thousands of years

our nose to the stone

 

We’ve battled our nature

and mostly we drone

 

The answers elude us

the questions forbear

 

While sins of our fathers

live on in the air

 

The harder we toil

the greater we fail

 

All change in the wishing

— our fortunes entail

 

(Saint Davids Pennsylvania: September, 2024)