“Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.”

― W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

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What is the latest on the news?

On Facebook?

Nazi symbols burned by white supremacists?

The latest lie

Or latest rabid tweet from our liar in chief?

Another shooting?

Another tax cut for the very rich?

A treaty violated

peace eroded

Excuse me for being a bit irate!

What is next?

More Christians justifying hate and greed?

Everything seems to be running down

Down

Down

Where are the good people?

Where are the faithful people?

Christ is not ambivalent

Love!

Give!

Be generous!

But the people who claim God

Seem to be the worst

Full of destructive intensity

Willing to destroy the earth

Erase protections for the poor

Exclude the strange

Oppress the vulnerable

Its enough to make God cry

It is enough to make me despair

What do we do

When the center cannot hold

O lord

Deliver us