TESTING POSITIVE

 

We are overcome by negativity

nothing but bad news all around us

which leaves us feeling helpless

unable to control our own lives

bad news so foreign

and contrary to what we believe

we wonder if we are declining

and wonder if we will ever be safe again

still there are those few souls

who remain optimistic

who go about their lives with goodness in mind

who are never distraught or defeated

so while the world tests negative

those who spread kindness remain unaffected

and are asymptomatic to negativity

they are the antithesis of a virus

in that they infect goodness not harm

we should demand more

of that kind of protective positivity

let it spread worldwide

and pray there will be no vaccine

to stop it.