Spirituality in the News

Sensationalism paraded around as fact
Horrors relayed without blinking an eye

"At least four hundred and twenty dead
in Iran today...and investors worry that
currency troubles could lead to inflation"

The body of an eight-year-old daughter
lies in the dust,
just one more father robbed.

What is gone, other than breath?

A life, a spirit, departed
or trapped by tears,
tangled in the grief of a father
who slowly twists
down
to the dust.

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Do these fact-twisters, opinion-shifters believe
in more than flesh and bone?