When eyes can't look to you to answer
The subpar common english greeting
    "How's it going"
And the only uttered response is
    "Peachy Keen"
With that wavering inflection
    the "eeeeen" continuing
        an unnatural length of time
What they are really saying
Is that they are fighting a terrific battle
A struggle-filled battle
Caused by
    their own neglect to admit failure
    not wanting to acknowledge
        a life turning out...not how their eight year...or seventeen year old optimism expected
And the untold spaces between their quick high octane
    awe-inspiring
        and beauty-filled social media posts
Live longer bouts of dejected dis-coloration

And none of it is real
And the collapse of this dis-ingenuity may have been fueled
By terrific loss
But it's impending collapse
    (if they survive)
May just awaken the truth-soul itself
To finally come out and say "hello"

Less than one percent have dehumanized the plight of the entire terrified migration by resorting to terroristic action against the Western world
Twenty percent are escaping the political upheaval and certain death by remaining steadfast , vigilant , praying for asylum ..
Fifty percent want to love and be loved , tend to their families , raise their children in peace ...
Ten percent will die in abject poverty if we don't step in with food , shelter and a helping hand , addressing their basic needs
Another ten percent have the unmistakable thousand yard stare , eyes conditioned to mass ****** , wholesale destruction , memories that time will never erase ..
Five percent of the young people will develop psychiatric disorders in relation to their current maltreatment , herded like livestock , kept in makeshift prisons , captors oblivious to their supplications
In desperation the remaining four percent will join the one percent in an attempt to save their people by whatever means necessary , ensuring their survival ..

My first book is out called Through My Eyes. I WANT TO THANK all of my readers who supported me and helped me surpass my first goal of 100,000 reads. Now my second goal was to write a book and I hope a few will get it for Christmas. Click the link below and please share this with others and with different collections. Thank you all for letting me reach my first to goals. You are my Hello Poetry family.

Carl Joseph Roberts

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A CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR OWN HELLO POETRY  CARL JOSEPH ROBERTS

he is now a  NEW AUTHOR of his OWN AND NEW POETRY BOOK...
"THROUGH MY EYES"

THE book has been discounted for CHRISTMAS

come one come all ... come get a WONDERFUL POETRY BOOK FOR CHRISTMAS ....

Congratulations Joe... your awesome!!!!!