Just Before the World Ends...

by Charlowe Briggess

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First I should acknowledge that the title and the poem are from a collection of Maya Angelou's.) Our tendency is to carry out our daily activities with a fervorthat blinds us from the needs of our fellow man and our planet. As we saw on 9-11 it takes a shockingly destructive act on our home turf to snap us awake: and yet it was all too easy to blame others.The actions of our country globally since then have been even more arrogant. The world's nations feelpressure to passively accommodate the policies of a man who lacks the support of a majority even in his own country. And so, with half of our defenses tied up in a crusade half a world away, we plod disgracefully on.