IN THIS WORLD

There are takers
who think they are
here to have fun,
and  the givers who share
increasing our world's words
over the ocean,stars and sun
opening up our eyes
who do a peace run
running in a Marathon
for charity's sake
and those like Quakers,
Merton and Dorothy Day
who forgive the St. Francis way
giving bread to the least
even to bird and beast
we remember how Jesus rode
on a donkey to Jerusalem
perhaps in December
for Ceasar's census
and the Tabernacle's feast
later giving out loaves
bowls of fishes and miracles
or how Picasso painted doves
to fly in columns of clouds
we say in our lyrical wishes,
may their bowed souls increase.