Painful Beautiful Lives

If I could stop
The pain
In this world
I would

If I could stop

Lives from imploding
On an individual level
And lives from being ruined
On a global level
I would

If I could stop

Personal disasters and
National tragedies
Devastating diagnoses and
Terrorist attacks
I would

But I

Don’t have
That power

Not on a level

That matters

We live

In a world
In motion

With hearts

And souls
In motion

And only the power

The extraordinary power

To live bravely

The painful
Beautiful lives
Entrusted to us