We are not afraid as once we were
In 1963 when fingers groped
To end the Cuban missile crisis there.
Do we feel unreal or don’t we care
That we are on the edge of loss of hope?
We are not afraid as once we were
Have we so much News we can’t take more?
We struggle in our day life just to cope
Who ends the nuclear crisis that is here?
Have we split off feelings of despair
In case this anguish block our little throats
We are not afraid nor numb, it’s clear
Can we find again or new acquire
The dignity of worth, the consoled woe?
Who will navigate such wild desire?
The envy we seem locked in will require
Destruction of the other as its foe
We are not afraid as once we were
Of nuclear crisis and its dead dismay
How my heart sings 
Yes,Tish,it puzzles me as well.Maybe we think it is going to happen in some virtual world not here.People think anxiety is a bad emotion but it would be appropriate in the political scene of today.We seem to know a lot more but feel a lot less.If we don’t feel we don’t try to do anything. about what is happening.Perhaps we are numb with suppressed fear…..I just don’t know
I am both mystified and utterly appalled by this sudden yen for nuclear strikes. Not only a loss of fear, but an apparent total memory/knowledge lapse as to what these weapons are and do; as if they fit in along the line of the usual run-of-the-mill supermarket consumer goods.