Sunday, May 25, 2014

The different - a poem



We exclude the different.
Discomfort, our reason to ignore
The sick, the homeless, the autistic,
We turn them from our door.

Dignity holds no value.
Their lives hold no worth.
We walk by them not smiling.
We’d banish them from earth.

We care not as they break 
and die in anger and in pain, 
Most in silence, one in flame,
We ignore the lessons once again.