KEITH BURKHOLDER - POEM

​Keith Burkholder has been published in Creative Juices, Sol Magazine, Trellis Magazine, Foliate Oak Literary Journal, New Delta Review, Poetry Quarterly, Scarlet Leaf Review, and Birmingham Arts Journal.  He has a bachelor's degree in statistics with a minor in mathematics from SUNY at Buffalo (UB).​

​People love to control one another

​We don't live in a civil world,
Maybe many, many years ago things were different,
Nowadays people are lucky to have a true friend,
Look at how people treat one another,
The money it costs to have a military,
And law enforcement,
Yet, no one really cares about one's health,
Hence, there is no true national health care system,
People are abusive,
They bully one another,
And in the process, don't care,
Yet, these same people believe in God,
There is no God,
And there never was,
Evolution is our reality,
Look at human behavior,
This stems clearly from evolution,
Our planet developed from the Big Bang,
I can go on and on,
People will always control one another,
This is just the way it is,
Take care,
Be good,
And again, carpe diem.