#bystandereffect
Hush!
See no evil and speak not of it
Blind, deaf, tied of tongue
Speak not!
You will survive
It’s not you they’re after
Yet
Your brethren -
They lie dead
Buried (or not)
Their lands salted
Seeded with despair
Terror
The only crop they may bear
Hush!
Speak not and keep quiet
Of hither and thither’s plight
Others will see to it
The onus isn’t mine
Children dead, their wounds gaping
Dead, to mindless aping
Broken and starved
Their minds thus carved
They’re a danger to you and yours!
(or so they say)
Bomb another hospital
A thousand miles away.
We see no evil
Speak of it no more
Silence is a choice
Compassion a chore!
Dec 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM UTC
It is strange,
That I glimpsed you once from afar
In passing
And I saw you
Abandoned. In disrepair and I thought you were
Beautifully tragic.
You were alone and I did nothing
I did nothing
I did nothing but watch you crumble
I saw you again today
Again in passing
And I found that you had been
Saved. Someone had picked you up
And gathered your pieces
They built you back up and I did nothing
I did nothing
I did nothing but watch you stand.
May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 8:13 PM UTC