Hoisting the canoe
Onto my shoulders
Wobbling to the lake
Splash! It plunges into the water
Paddling in clear clean water
A relief
A re-lease
Bliss
Landing on the island
Setting up my home: my tent
Protected from the rain
And bugs
But not from bears, coyotes, foxes...
Or the bull frog that pounds on the "door" at 3 a.m.
"Let me in" or maybe he said
"Get off my land" lol
On the way home across the lake
I, again, see all the huge cottages
Better labelled as "second homes"
I am astonished and disgusted every time
At the in-justice, the greed, the unconsciousness
Especially when I arrive in the city
Riding my bike, I'm surrounded by tents
Ripped, dirty, in need of repair
Just like those that occupy them [and all of us]
Perhaps they lost their jobs
Or couldn't exist on the parenthetically low minimum wage
Or are refugees of the climate emergency
Or maybe I'm in Gaza: look at all the tents [that don't stop the water from coming in!]
Where the entire population has to keep moving
Or they will be murdered by the IDF
By the way, they still will be!
Even after moving to "safe zones"
Relocating even 15 times!
Or the 15000 Palestinian homes that have been stolen and demolished
In the West Bank by armed settlers and the IDF
They are worse than "just" home-less
10,000 from West Bank imprisoned
Home-less: and tortured, raped yet not charged!
We can watch on our big screen TV's in our warm homes.
We need a system change: not charity
A livable minimum wage, unions run by the workers,
Less capitalism and cops and more social programs
Less bombs and more food
The home-less "are Jesus" and Jesus is the home-less:
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat,
I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,
I was a stranger and you invited me in,
I needed clothes and you clothed me,
I was sick and you looked after me,
I was in prison and you came and visited me.
...Whatever you did for one of the least
Of these...you did for me."
Matthew 25: 35-36 NIV
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