ALL IS NOT LOST
If I fail for not trying
My heart will keep on crying,
The world in its present stage
Ignite pangs into a blaze
 
Having shown a way out of this madness
Unable to see, we now live in darkness
Jesus taught us how to pray
Gandhi showed us the way
 
Jesus said to turn the other cheek
Gandhi was strong but yet meek,
Instructed to love each as our self
That teaching we placed on a dusty shelf
 
Now looking at our present predicament
Much room for discouragement,
But even with the world shaking like a mighty quake
I’ll continue to try for our children’s sake!

© Sheriff Ali 2006

Author’s Comments
Despite man’s egregious machination “using” religion as a means to a deceitful end that has placed the world in chaos and us at the edge of a cliff; we do not have to fall in! It will “only” take the goodness of all people to forgive and seek forgiveness. We serve a merciful and loving God and if we will persevere to find the “will,” God will make the “way.”