RESTORATION OF FAITH WITH MANKIND

Inner voices of anger:
Saber rattling – pestilence of wars
The slaughter of 4 Oakland Police Officers
Drive-by shootings of innocent casualties
Foreclosures – homelessness
Crumbling infrastructure
Diminishes my faith with mankind.

Mired in traffic at critical hour of madness –
in midst of maelstrom of road rage –
cacophony of horns blaring in anger –
entombed in sarcophagus of my car –
claustrophobia –
sounds beyond decibel of tolerance –
confused – in quandary of hopelessness –
paranoia sets in – what to do?
Two strangers – Hispanic and White
attempted to unplug the bottleneck.
Asian Police officer wave-off Good Samaritans
patrol-car tucked me into pocket of safety.

There is goodness in our citizens of Milpitas –
in times of economic down-turn –
people are drawn together
for the common good for all.
Our citizens have so little to give –
they gave themselves
to aid a little old confused man.

In midst of maelstrom –
the goodness of mankind
displaces anger.
Restoration of faith with mankind.

RAYMOND CHOW – 07-09-09