how can everybody walk around a burning building
and act like they don't see it?
don't feel the heat on their skin?
don't smell the putrid smoke?
don't hear the deafening flames?
how can people block out the cry of a child?
how can they ignore the sobs of a depressed teenager?
how do they go on with their lives not bothered by sadness?
please tell me how.
so i can tell them there is a burning building.
so they can cry with the child.
and sob with the teenager
and the world will be filled with wails of togetherness
and the sorrow will be shared
so the building doesn't have to burn
and the child doesn't have to cry
and the teenager doesn't have to be depressed
and we live seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling everything