number by Venezuela

numbers rounded
so far
as six thousand five hundred rescued
seventeen thousand wounded

three thousand five hundred have died
yet
they are numbers needed for
aid groups
and to give perspective there while working
there on this
alone

and is there judgment
and
forestall it while
the human toll is taken
and
before and after
count
addressed

and who’s there
and many
and
many will be going

and I don’t be
I have to
say
and from a distance
well
I pray
and have given money toward relief
though I’m old and poor and
my family gives me grief
while I should go
on
and they are giving all the while
and fiscal easier
as well

and there’s material in prayer and that’s the point
and it isn’t
but
to give to help
however that is healthy
honest
toward their lives
and
sanctity
having been made by God and natural indifference
notwithstanding
yet
is the God of love and has directed us
by that aspect
even
alone

or through which to send
everything
we send to these in every status
of
the need and our
response

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1 Corinthians 13:13, “And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
NIV

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