News comes music wrapped
from an air conditioned studio,
where human pain is analysed
by professionals who know.
Nightly, we are bludgeoned
with humanity’s despair,
from every corner of the world
the worst is ours to share.
The quieter the tone used
the bleaker the reality,
to keep us calm and safe
they quantify the tragedy.
We need to break out now
from violent desperation,
and celebrate humanity
rising with elation.
Let’s hear the triumph
of people stopping hate,
and building up new lives
before it is too late.
There’s good news breaking
out across the world.
Not last item on the show,
but a banner just unfurled.
People taking to the streets
to challenge old brutality,
welcoming a coming age-
empathic hospitality.
Young and old are meeting,
discovering each other
to a music of new life,
drawing us all together.
Sept. 2020