These Ironies were Not Self-Evident

THESE IRONIES WERE NOT SELF-EVIDENT

These ironies were not self evident

Lying there exposed

Rather, they hid

Behind youth, happiness and laughter

Silently lurking

Poised to pounce

When the opportunity opens

Let your guard down and there it is –

Anger over a loss

Self-pity instead of activity

Jealousy in place of acceptance

You drop back into fresh reality

Look around, see all the people

Coping, hoping; family or solitary

All making it through, problems as well.

Then see all those who aren’t there

Shut in somewhere

Ill, hurt or too old to move –

And how do all these souls go on?

How does the human survive?

Until you walk streets and really see

How many men and women have no place to sleep.

Rampant poverty

Sidewalks filthy

Garbage diggers abound

Wild men in dirty old clothes

Bound up in layers

To survive the bone deep chill

Of cardboard on concrete

Cameras in every store front

Filming the decay of our civilization.

How long until the poverty

drives them insane and violent and jailed? 201206.1

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