Do We Care|Poetry|Aron Riamroi

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A child is conceived- never to see the world

Families and communities are destroyed

With no regrets or remorse

A child cries looking for the mother and parents weep for the lost

Bodies scattered on the street is the new normal

We now began to choose who lives and who dies!

Human- we all are.

But do they care?

Love has grown cold as ice

Truth has become high-priced ‘with bodyguards of lies’

Humanity has lost its meaning in the pursuit of selfish cravings

Respect is gone with the wind

Young men are in search- for the meaning of life

Human- we all are.

But do they care?

One life is more worthy because of a skin color

One race is loftier because of physical gazes

We are sucked down to the bottom by prejudicial politics

We live in a society with hatred for the other

Human- we all are.

But do they care?

Rich ones get away with crimes

But for the poor-existence in itself is a crime

The loss of livelihood for one is naught for the other

The brokenness of the poor is ignored

But the trivial acts of the rich are heard far and wide

The little privilege of the downtrodden are taken  

Discrimination has become a way of life

Human- we all are.

But do they care?

We are selfish

Our world is dying

We are self-centered

Animal are endangered

We mistake the gift of God

This planet-blue and lively

As human playground

Being we all are.

But do we care?

We are blinded

Digging our own graves

We have failed to recognize our love ones

We have lifted us up at the expense of the other

We seek respect by planting fear on lives of others

Human we are.

But do we care?

Aron Riamroi