The land of the free is falling! <br />And other lands are following? <br />Yes, at last for all of us to know <br />Some wisdom behind this show <br />A smiling Hand is calmly watching <br />Hoping if we are still remembering <br />His infinite goodness and love <br />Now look like darker clouds above <br />Well, competitions are thinner <br />For now they sigh: ‘What’s dinner? ’ <br />And more office cubes left barren <br />Uniting more parents and children <br /> <br />Thanks for this great crisis, Lord! <br />That recreates a real one world <br />More haughty necks are lower <br />Confined just to be a good sower <br />And fishers now really fish for men <br />While others still cheat their women <br />Oh, that we may learn to simplify <br />Our insatiable, short lives to qualify <br />Thy ever countless blessings bring <br />This only tune left for us to sing: <br />Together, ‘I am a Child of God’ <br />A sure delight to our souls’ i-pod!<br /><br />Edgar Andrade Baguio<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/crisis-delight-a-tribute-to-2008-global-crisis/
