Open Your Heart - an Ovi

Ronovan Writes

Ovi Poetry Challenge 84: OPEN is your inspiration


Open your heart, open your mind. 
It costs you nothing to be kind. 
Make an effort to not be blind 
to those who need some assistance. 

They may be down, need of a hand,
open your eyes and take a stand.
In days of woe, when much is banned,
we all may need reassurance.  

Open your wallet, if you're can,
we're all worthy, no one less than. 
"...evil men plot, good men must plan,"
as proclaimed a man of wisdom.  

©2025 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved 

The quote is a line from speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.  He may have been paraphrasing, or influenced by, an older quote by Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." 

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