BEAR

How do you lead in a country like this one?

Because we want to follow

Or it sure seems like that.

We want to believe it can be better than this,

Less suffering, less poverty, less guns, less government telling us what to do

But can it?

Nobody’s perfect.

FDR drank like a fish, Kennedy had women coming and going, LBJ peed on the lawn,

And Lincoln wanted to lock up his critics whenever he could.

Are you wrestling with your demons or thinking you’ve got them licked?

We are flawed and wicked a great deal of the time

So what hope is there in that?

Faith, belief, ideas,

Are what pull us forward

Into what we cannot see.

Really we just want someone to hold

The flashlight in the dark cave,

And hope they will shine

The light on the bear

Before he eats us whole.