If opposite bad is good <br />Where does that leave evil? <br />Those times un-ordinary <br />When the fabric unravels <br />And dark deeds have no equal. <br />Those times recorded and retold <br />Of agony and grief <br />And calamity and hatred of war <br />Often prolonged, or terrible and brief, <br />That cannot sit with good or bad <br />And just beggers belief. <br />But beneath the pall <br />Of dispersing light <br />Deeds of love and selflessness <br />Courage and sacrifice <br />Spark, flash and ignite <br />From an eternal glow <br />That which cannot be extinguished <br />And goes where darkness goes, <br />Darkness ready to absorb the light, <br />Light ready to expose the dark void. <br />But dark events get coverage <br />An imbalance mostly seen <br />While myriad events of love and kindness <br />Like photons shine unnoticed, <br />And great good things hard to explain <br />Perhaps fortune of randomness <br />Happen every moment, hidden on the main <br />Babes are born, the sick pull through <br />Accidents don’t occur contrary to circumstance <br />The lost are found despite the odds <br />A smile, thank you to a helping hand <br />A child’s “I love you”, a kiss goodbye <br />All deeds of warmth and lightness <br />Unreported because they are <br />What is right in the every day! <br />So what opposes the sad, sad dark? <br />Connections inexplicable <br />Nature’s unseen links reticular <br />‘Whisper heard from a raging storm <br />Ensnared by selfless reaching arms, <br />Weave flow ubiquitous, oblivious, inextricable, <br />A light that shines its essence <br />Manifestation of all things good; <br />Unquenchable beacon at its pinnacle <br />Easily statistical coincidence, <br />Or perhaps it is the miracle.<br /><br />Danny Draper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/bad-and-good-2/
