My Moral Compass lies at the center of my Heart-it is guided of course, or unfortunately, by what I consider right and true and just. My Moral Compass, usually an invisible partner in life’s’ navigation, is up for review in these days of unprecedented territory-heretofore unexamined navigational challenges.  My Moral Compass in the past, was rarely called upon to explain itself or justify its position to me.  But here I am…standing on a precipice, a great vista before me of the topography of the planet. There are parts unseen by me, still cloaked in darkness-shrouded from my vision but existing nonetheless. I am realizing that all I see, is not all that there is, and the more I look, the more I see. I may be overwhelmed by the vastness of my vision, the scope of the expanding panorama is way beyond the horizons of my imagination, previously unimaginable…But here I am.

My Moral Compass is adapting and adjusting now to realize that my previous parameters were naive and uninformed, and my current pathway is anything but. The extent of depravity, greed, cruelty, violence, racism and misogynistic putrefied darkness is so immense and prevalent, that my previous points of reference are shattered-or perhaps it is that my Moral Compass is simply more aware-more encompassing. The darkness has always been present, simply hiding in plain sight, and now that my rose-colored glasses have been removed, it’s clear that the dark side of human nature is only part of the picture. There may have been a time eons ago when people lived in light and love-I believe it is possible, perhaps this is a memory from a past life I lived, before all this madness began. At any rate…my Moral Compass now reads true and real. No death is excusable, no killing is justified, no person has the right to take without regard or to impose their will on another. There is no excuse, no justification that can be made-no defense-no argument. These moral standards are nonnegotiable for me. My Moral Compass guides me truly-it shows the way forward to navigate through this morass of mayhem-the heartless disregard and and supreme arrogance that permeates the minds of some.

I will not, I cannot stand silently by to witness these days-these times-without raising my voice to speak truth, my heart laid bare…My Moral Compass is my guide.