Things That Matter

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

I would like to share a poem written by a Gregg Kleiner, novelist, jounalist, free-lance writer, and a doting father. In an eloquent way, he says what so many of us are really thinking. 

White Caps

As a fellow father, I beg you
Mr. President—
to please speak up,
utter a few words at least
about our warming world,
before it burns up
Malia’s and Sasha’s future, dries
the tears of our rivers, melts
the cool white caps on our Planet’s poles, soaks
our cities and suburbs with saltwater.
You’re a smart man.
You know it is real,
and arriving too fast. So why such
       s i l e n c e
when your own daughters
will inherit a too-hot world?
Why wait until Sasha and Malia
and all our children ask us,
in a few years,
What were you thinking, Dad?
You knew this was happening and
what were you doing?
while their only future smolders
along the horizon that encircles them?
Say something. Now. For god's sake.
For theirs.
        --Gregg Kleiner

So Mr. President, as you begin your next term, please don't be silent about things that matter.

Respectfully yours, 

Pauline