On A Cross

If you can feel the bonds of love around you...family, friends, lovers...and you can see the world ripping those bonds apart, does it break your heart?

When you see a husband and wife and their kids pulled apart because they can't make ends meet and the parents each work two jobs...

...or you see one of the kids being drawn to trouble because he's odd or she is ugly

...a child that once sat and giggled on a father's knee but now turns to heroin

...a son that once clung to his mother on the first day of school but now tries to prove himself to a gang

...or a tight family torn apart by cancer

...an old man alone, utterly alone

if you saw these things, and you could change them, how far would you go? If you could salvage the love and save the misery of those you see, would you suffer to do it? 

Would you get on a cross?

Written not by me, but by my best friend in this world.