I will stay
In this selfish
Warped world
Where life Is
Disposable
Like sweet
Wrappers
And plastic
Bags.
Moonlight
Sonatas
And Wine,
The conscience
Wipers of time.
Where pain
Is ignored
Unless it’s
Yours,
Empathy
Is something
Found in a book.
A being
No one sees
Or knows
Holds
Sway over
Lives of millions,
Who’s name
Is used to
Take life
And restrain
The freedom
Of many.
But I
Choose
To stay
To have
My say
To love
And try
To understand.
To fight,
For what is
Humanity.
Time to give tolerance a chance, I am reading some awful things in the news today. In Bristol a ten year old boy was snatched off the street he was forced in to a disused building beaten and left confused and scared; because of the colour of his skin.
This was one of several hate crimes I read today and each day brings more, homophobic attacks, religious and ethnic hate and discrimination, fear of the unknown can never be an excuse. Neighbours who wouldn’t cross the road to help, people without conscience or morals. Where will it end? When will we remember what it is to be human?
.Leave me a comment, let me see the disgust in your words restore my faith in humanity. Please.
I’m disgusted at the normalization of hate, and the marginalization of compassion, empathy, and humanity. It’s sickening that people who wish to shed light on racism, misogyny, xenophobia, police brutality, and other hatreds or injustices are shouted down by the willfully ignorant. Blaming the victim has become commonplace, it seems.
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Thank you for coming and leaving your powerful words. 😇
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Hate crimes are the worst especially when children are targetted. I like the way you extend disposability to people–I believe there is a connection–in a materialistic society people are very disposable. Some people even approach relationships that way…
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Thank you for your input Janice, unfortunately you are correct, some go in to marraige with one foot on the escape hatch… 😯😕
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(my unfinished omment left for cyberspace on its own). Nothing’s really new under the sun, but everpresent media bring it to the fore. The best we can contribute are positive actions and thoughts in our own environment and community, the good vibes do have a way of rippling out…
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Yes I am A positive person as a whole I see the good if I can find it but occasionally we have to voice our feelings. Thank you for coming and my posts still evaporate at a touch of a button; I’m pleased it isn’t only me. 😇
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Do read the news but try to avoid going to deeply into the de-humanizing bits.
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No evil in the dip of a gull’s wing,
The leap of a big cat,
The death-dealing snatch of a shark’s jaws,
But the black pus of indifference,
The banality of casual cruelty
Is the preserve of the highest of animals,
The sacred and the chosen,
And I cannot help but wonder why.
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The stench of indifference
Ranks high in the olfactory nerve.
The turn of a head in place of a word
The touch of kindness costs not a lot
A sigh of boredom
says he cares
not a jot.
This is the highest compliment I could have received thank you.😇
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Sometimes it’s easier to answer with the distance of a poem. People stink so much I’d rather not get any closer.
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I agree, wholeheartedly, with all you say! I think that we can hide, but not escape the hatred and horror that is fast becoming our reality. I fear the world that my grandchildren will live in, and pray that one day our world will awaken to truth.
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Thanks for visiting and your thoughts are welcomed.
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Well said, Ellen
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Thank you, i appreciate your comment and please return soon 😆😇
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This is a beautiful message!
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I’ve seen many things in the news that make me sick to my stomach. Here’s to hoping that one day things will truly be better, and that racism and hate will fall aside.
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Thank you for your comments, something needs to happen. I feel morality is disappearing and am shocked at the (we are better than you) attitude of so many. 😯😕
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i agree…
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Yay for you. Stay strong.
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I can always rely on Bernadette to visit. X Thank you😇
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