#perishing
Neglect
by Michael R. Burch
What good are tears?
Will they spare the dying their anguish?
What use, our concern
to a child sick of living, waiting to perish?
What good, the warm benevolence of tears
without action?
What help, the eloquence of prayers,
or a pleasant benediction?
Before this day is over,
how many more will die
with bellies swollen, emaciate limbs,
and eyes too parched to cry?
I fear for our souls
as I hear the faint lament
of theirs departing ...
mournful, and distant.
How pitiful our “effort,”
yet how fatal its effect.
If they died, then surely we killed them,
if only with neglect.
Keywords/Tags: neglect, starving, dying, perishing, famine, illness, disease, tears, anguish, concern, prayers, inaction, death
Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 9:39 PM UTC
Being human is common ground.
By this truth we're all bound.
Slowly perishing day by day.
Heading down the same pathway.
While we are all living,
we can choose what we're giving
our time to before we die.
Let's lay our lives down to beautify.
Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 3:04 PM UTC
Recurring thoughts, dark visions of a reality that can never be. A false time with false hope. Harsh lives, perishing in smoke.
Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 10:54 PM UTC