Sad But True

It is sad but true that sometimes 

we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and 

how we are more alike than we are different. 

The unspeakable devastation in Oklahoma has brought the human goodness to fore. 

Men and women from Kansas, from Missouri, from Arkansas, even from New York City, 

have rushed to offer themselves as aid to the stricken Oklahomans. 

I sit watching the television and am proud of how we are able to sympathize with each other 

and saddened that the only way we come to that understanding 

is when a tragedy affects us. 

I have not seen one person ask if the injured were 

black, white, or Jewish or Muslim or gay or straight. 

Don’t you wish we could think of each other in kinder ways all the time?

~Maya Angelou