KEITH BURKHOLDER - POEMS

​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).

How do I know how powerful God is if I have never seen him?

​You have to admit this,
People have huge imaginations,
Especially in the case of God,
I have never experienced God,
Ever,
Yet, so many people have found him,
Where, that is left up to debate,
What we need more in our world,
We need more good people,
That is something we are lacking,
There are tons of religious people,
Yet, not a lot of good ones,
If God is so great,
Then why is so much money spent on the military and law enforcement?
Hundreds of billions spent, yet no God to do anything,
Think about what I have said here,
All this money being spent, yet God never shows up,
Believe what you want,
This is a free world,
This is all you can do,
For now, take care and try to be good,
This is all that can be said and asked for as well.

We all need health care
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​There is a lot of spending on the military and law enforcement,
Yet, not on health care,
We need health care,
People need to be alive,
Not dead,
No one asks to be born,
Health is needed,
People love stress,
They keep reproducing,
When in essence reproduction is overkill,
Too many people in the world,
People want people,
Yet, health care that is affordable is not a reality,
Think what you want about this,
I would never have children,
Things change too much to the worse for people,
Believe in what you want,
This is all you can do,
For time is of the essence and change for the better needs to develop in due time.