MERE MORTAL

There’s so much more we could have been –
So many bands to break –
So many opportunities
To give instead of take –

There’s so much more we could have done
If we had not been blind –
So many lives we could have touched –
Such chances to be kind –

We could have done a thousand acts
Of quiet courtesy –
We could have blessed a thousand lives
With healing surety –

We could have rescued flocks of lambs –
We could have fed the poor –
We could have built up Paradise –
We could have done much more.

(12 September 2009, Pleasant Grove, Utah)