I feel so bad, I've got a worried mind

I heard Roy Orbison sing Blue Bayou on the radio this morning and I can't get the tune out of my head but most of all the opening line is such an apt description of how I feel. I'm one of those "anyone but Bush" people. I was never drawn to Kerry as I think you should be drawn to a candidate to really be behind him but I felt that he was essentially an honest person of integrity and compassion. He wasn't W, that was more than enough for me. I have seen the nation divided before, was part of it, us and them. There was a time you were either one or the other, very difficult to be in between. We are on that road again and it breaks my heart to know that is going to happen. But it has to. Are you different? A woman? Of a sexual persuasion outside church boundaries? Are you currently in the military service because you needed the job and the opportunities it provides? Are you sick, can you afford to be? Are you living at subsistance level? Paycheck to paycheck? Would a break on healthcare or even just being paid for what you are worth make all the difference in the world? Think of what a 25% raise would do for you. Do you think you'll get it? Do you think the money is there for it but someone else is getting it? Or maybe that it is being spent on the other side of the world.......for fucking what? Are you sick of hearing about suicide bombers and car bombs and about innocent dead men and women who have been pulled into something beyond their darkest nightmares? Does it embarrass you how the rest of the world sees us, feels about us? Doesn't it kind of freak you that foreign countries own so much of America? The Chinese? The Brits? The fucking Saudi's for God's sake? Do you know that a one trillion has twelve zeros after the one; and that a trillion is a million millions? Are you young and hoping there will be return on your investment when you are old? Does the rape of the earth sicken you; the drilling and grading and developing of more strip malls and suburbs and the felling of old growth forests and the poisoning and damming of the waters? This is it, no more gloom and doom from me, you either get it or you don't. I don't want for it to be another us and them.........it was ugly. But it is, listen to the talk around you. And it's going to become more divisive I fear. You can take your stand, pick your spot, or try to keep to the middle of the road and out of the line of fire, take the path of least resistance, try to remain as neutral as you can and hope for the best; that might work for you. I think we all do some of that just to survive and get by day to day. It's not my place nor am I qualified to tell someone how to live, what to believe, which side to land on and I'm not so naive and idealistic to think that voting bush out of office would have been a panacea for all the ills that are in front of us.

Your call, it's all your call.
Me? I've got a worried mind.