Unaffirmed

 "God is in charge"

was the affirmation, "So be not afraid."

And while he wrote it

a baby was born with a tumor,

a thousand people died of preventable 

causes, flies surrounded

a starving child,

prisoners sat with faint hope

of seeing freedom,

a wife was beaten while her children

watched and

dozens of judges took

millions of dollars 

in bribes. 

If I believed in the 

first line of this poem,

what would I dare to do about the rest? 

What could I do even now?

Job once was asked where he was

while Earth and Heaven were created,

while he sat on a pile, bereft

and blighted.

We all have questions,

don't we?