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.
Do you write many poems? This is lovely.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI write from time to time, but this is the first I have ever made public.