Your life, is all you can really know
But what of other lives, other worlds

Take a piece, of the unknown world
Know life in details, the other knows

Walk a mile, in any other’s shoes
Hold to hope, while in deep blues

Drift across blue seas in their boat
Sense the slaughter of a meal goat

Ride their camel across the sands
Run from danger with waving hands

Take a look into stranger places
Feel rain striking all uplifted faces

Face the death of daughter or son
Or face the death of any loved one

Know all the agony and despair
Of a life without hope of breath’s air

Suffer the pain of the torn mind
Feel the want of the unloved kind

Glory in the love of the lost forlorn
Cherish thoughts of the freshly born

Take the mind of the loving divine
Love all, knowing all love is mine



©  2017 Jim Davis