Thousands of miles away Human beings are being gassed to death And photographs of mourning families Are published by the hour And even though The world acknowledges Syria's current condition Very few have seen the pictures Blood and tears and unfathomable terror Ignorance at its finest America at its finest Why cant we be a nation of proactivity rather than reactivity Why does it take so much For people to realize That genocide is occurring And that lives are being torn apart As we sit calmly at our dinner tables Abundant with pea soup And roasted chicken And lack of caring