Strengthen The Core

 A New Year’s Wish

Rather than allowing those who choose 

the extreme fringes of our political spectrum 

to pull us further apart by highlighting our differences, 

let us use civil debate and compromise 

to identify and strengthen the core 

of our common goals and concerns.

Rather than doing battle 

from the outer edges of our conflicts 

to conquer the middle, let us begin our dialogs 

from the place where values are shared by all 

so that we may strengthen the core 

of those beliefs and devalue our differences.

Rather than dividing ourselves 

into smaller and smaller factions while demanding 

the focus be on our uniqueness, 

let us strengthen the core of the ideals 

that reach across all of humanity 

that they may bind us together. 

We laugh, we cry, 

we love, we mourn. 

Start there. 

Quiet reflection

     harvests bountiful blessings,

till the new year's field.

-New Years 2021 - 2022

Ken Owen
Van Niddy Press