Discouraged and Despondent

at the selfishness and avarice in the world,
narcissistic world leaders who destroy lives
and families and even societies for no other reason
than to sate their voracious appetites for power,
opportunistic politicians who lie and cheat
their way into office and then use their position
and influence to line their pockets,
predatory international corporations that justify
their exploitation of the world’s finite resources
and the public as their rightful prey,
wealthy individuals who look down on their less
“successful” fellow citizens as inferior
and somehow less deserving of happiness,
and even average American families who
feel unconditionally entitled to indulge
their selfishness at the expense of
starving families around the world.