The Cynic Speaks

I hate to post this at a time like this, with a true and real natural disaster (whatever that means) going on down south but I cant hold it in any longer. I watch CNN, read some internet news and i cant help but be deeply moved by the stories and images. It takes you in, grabs your heart and forces you to feel. I can't imagine being there right now in the midst of this chaos. I can't begin to tell you how it feels to watch people die in front of me or not being able to even go to bathroom without fear of rape.

I see the reaction to people around our country. "I am ashamed of our governement" one woman from house of reps said. The governer of New Orleans said "They are spinning and we are dying." Harsh words for our government which is supposedly built of us.

I can't help but see these words turned around on those that say them. Taking nothing away from the tragedy that is happening down South, I can't help but think of the thousands of starving children around the world that no one cries for, that no one bothers to hear, that no one is speaking for. I cant help but wonder how much we are condemning ourselves by not doing something in the areas we are just ignoring. The locations we have spun so that we believe it really isn't our responsibility, the lines we hear that cause us to become numb to people dying because they are seperated by an ocean. God help us all.