"Untitled"

5 May 2020: The news is hitting me a bit hard tonight. Feeling overwhelmed by the idea that leaders are putting money before science and human lives. It all feels so helpless and sad. So I went to The Academy of American Poets "Sheltering in Poems" collection and found one that helped.

"Untitled"
by James Baldwin

Lord,
          when you send the rain,
          think about it, please,
          a little?
  Do
          not get carried away
          by the sound of falling water,
          the marvelous light
          on the falling water.
    I
          am beneath that water.
          It falls with great force
          and the light
Blinds
          me to the light.