In Tears and Sentiment

My heart girds the anguish

of TV news --

Taliban turmoil in Afghanistan

rebels within Sudan,

terrorists on Egyptian soil

and suicide bombings among

civilians in Iraq, notwithstanding

US troops departed

yet tormented people are never

diminished --

Ukraine nor North Korea

no matter where the location,

their lives a testament

of struggle against adversity.

We share anguish

in those tortured faces,

victims of Mexican drug wars

the need for

North American food banks,

escaping from

a brute of a husband --

tired souls possess a passion

for survival, to reclaim

a land of ancestral domain

and I am in bondage

to their spirit.