Finding Serenity

The shootings
and stabbings
and mistaken identity
and honor killings
and kidnappings
and overpopulation
and greed
and stealing
and handouts
and buyouts
and bailouts
and walls built
to keep people out
or to keep people in…

Why? There is no answer.
There is only

The blue sky
and the white clouds
and the rainbows
after the rain
and the green grass
and the orange leaves
and the miracle that is
and the miracle that is to come
and the faith
and the prayers
and the innocence
and the innocents
and the harmony
to keep people together
or to give people hope…

Because you can’t
control things around you,
you can only control
how you react,

why choose a gun
when you can choose a rainbow?