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Where were you?  LZ

7/3/2022

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Thoughts on our current state of political discourse in the United States. 
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When the dust settles,
And the history books are written.  
If those that remain,
can look back through a clearer lens
where will they see you stood
at this moment?
 
Were you the one praying for change,
seeking vengeance
 or hoping for justice?

Was it yourself or for all,
For the earth or for your children
For the country or
was it only for those who shared
your world view,
your faith
or the color of your skin?
Were your convictions rooted in righteousness,
keeping the peace,
in passive indifference
or in making another suffer?
 
Where were you
When the hungry needed fed,
 the sick needed healing,
When the other needed your compassion?

Were you the one we see with the bullhorn-
Shouting yet not hearing,
Believing yet not seeing?
Or were you the one quiet and unseen,
delivering meals,
Lending a kind hand,
Trying to steady the storms around you.
 
Where were you when it all came apart,
When the flag fell
and the crosses burned,
when the fraying fragments of our freedoms
lay tattered,
trampled,
and desecrated on the steps of state capitols
who fueled the great fire of our demise.
Were you busy ripping the stitches,
Letting the edges burn with the embers of your anger?
Or were you the one frantically trying to calm the flames,
Patch the tears and
reinforce the seams
Of our once great democracy?
 
Ask yourself now,
Where were you?
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    Lisa Zimbler is a recovering wedding planner
    and soon-to-be empty nester who now spends her days chasing the sun in Miami Beach and summering in Chicago. This blog is an outlet to creatively express her musings on the current state of this country and whatever else moves her to write during this "next chapter" in life. 


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