Why do we hurt ourselves? Each other?
Why?
Why the children, the mothers and fathers,
Sisters and brothers?  Did God put us here for this?
So much anger
We explode at one another
To own some trinket, or patch of grass.
And so much pain.
Yet they are possessions for only our lifetime.
Why?  Did God put us here for this?
 

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