From the outside
looking at my country
do not laugh
do not mock
do not decry this
as the collective scream
of a nation gone mad
understand that
this is not a choice born of madness
but rather
this is a choice born of desperation
a cry
of every mother who can't feed her children
of every father working multiple jobs, just to provide
of every child born into a suffering they will never rise from
of every person who has to beg on the streets
hoping, begging for things to change
May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 9:46 AM UTC
From the outside
looking at my country
do not laugh
do not mock
do not decry this
as the collective scream
of a nation gone mad
understand that
this is not a choice born of madness
but rather
this is a choice born of desperation
a cry
of every mother who can't feed her children
of every father working multiple jobs, just to provide
of every child born into a suffering they will never rise from
of every person who has to beg on the streets
hoping, begging for things to change
