Thought for Today

Pink custard clouds hang from a high brilliant-blue plate.

The angel of devastation eases stock-still.

The sun retracts its question; dawn doesn’t answer.

The west is an abyss that might swallow us whole.

We function in sentences like Swiss-army knives.

But time will clip the wings of the goddess of storms.
The truth is: We are safe in a rock-solid house.

We’ll heat pasta and prawns and pour a glass of wine.
We have not been condemned to death by apathy.  
We claim a life worth living, a worth life-giving.

The truth is: Children huddle in blistering boats

That might burst to bits on the Mediterranean.

"You don’t put children on the sea unless it is

safer than the land." We must save the children now!
Assure them worth life-giving and life worth living.