Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Poetry Month -- April is Poetry Month ...as such we'll offer several poems throughout this month on our blog. The first one I'd like to share today is a poem I wrote called In Our Midst, which will be included in an upcoming book of poetry scheduled for late 2012. For those of you interested in other published poetry, check out my book: Towards Understanding on www.brummet.ca In Our Midst How can we justify this life? With every breath that we take Can we influence this hard world Is there power in the hands Of This boy or this girl There are heroes in our midst And you know that they exist They exist in you and I We are the heroes in our midst How can we waste away this life? When every breath is a gift A chance to choose whatever fits To make some wrong right Or ease somebody’s plight How can we whine about this life? When those who passed before had Passed through rougher roads and more And when looked at in...