Save the Good
July 7 2026
There is good news and bad.
Please, save the good for last;
as it is, I’m unhappy enough.
It seems there’s always good and bad.
So much, I start to wonder
if the world is zero-sum
— 1 step forward, 1 step back,
a tricky equation
where, in the end, both sides cancel out.
Or is this the pessimist in me?
Could progress be possible,
disguised in a sawtooth graph
that, in the fullness of time
zigzags up and to the right?
As Martin Luther King, a man of faith, proclaimed
the arc of the moral universe is long
but it bends toward justice.
And the faithless,
what are we to believe?
In wasted lives reclaimed,
love found again,
the human race
coming to its senses?
In a universe that expands
until it peters out,
or one that will boomerang
— falling back
into a singularity
and another big bang?
Another chance
to get it right.
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