A holocaust is happening

all around me every day

and everyone I know

seems to think that it’s okay.

I don’t know how to live in their world.

I just can’t go on this way.

I don’t want to alienate

my family and my friends

but there are defenseless lives out there

I feel I must defend.

No one ever understands

though I’ve told them time and time again.

I feel I am all alone.

I face each day all on my own.

I have no place I can call home.

I fear I never will be known

by those I have cared for.

How can I get close to people

who commit ****** every day

with the products that they purchase

and the money that they pay?

I know my purpose is to change their minds

but I don’t know what I can say.

There is this void that stands between

me and everyone else.

All those I know stand on the other side

while I stand on this side by myself.

Why am I fated to stand alone

just because I want to help?

How can this gap ever be bridged

when they won’t hear my pleas?

And how can this problem be fixed

when they refuse to see

that they way humanity has made the world

is not the way it’s meant to be?

No matter how hard it may become

I’ll sacrifice anything I must

to defend the lives of all of those

who humans take advantage of,

even if it drives a wedge

between me and those I love.

I need my conscience to be clean.

I have to live by my beliefs.

I see that may mean

that I will always be

alone in a sea of people.