Look and See

Look but can you see?

Children tapping your window, peering through your soul

Malnourished bodies hidden beneath tough thick skin

Unshed tears behind narrowed angry eyes

Pain and suffering brimming over their cauldron of shattered hope

You can look… But can you see?

Look but can you see?

The stealing... the corruption... what is happening to our country?

This proud country that brave warriors died bloody gruesome deaths for

A country that is now eaten by maggots slowly digging its own grave, 6 feet under

Greedy fingers milking our very bosom

Wrinkled from the sucking of unquenchable lips of power hungry evil

You can know… But do you care?

Look but can you see?

Tall skyscrapers…Mammoths blocking the clear blue sky

Fancy machines killing us slowly, killing us softly

Vehicles choking the very breath from our lips

Mounds of waste

Hills of garbage

Mountains of misery

You can cry but will you help?

Look but can you see?

Your own child’s eyes… wide with wonder as he grasps at life

Each step he takes, your hand guides through

Each smile a ray of sunshine, you treasure

Each experience, each memory, you coddle, you cuckold

Look and see him fade away as we look but cannot see today

Look and see his every labored breath weaken from not caring now

Look and see him dying slowly from not helping now

This will make you look closely

This will make you see clearly

Look but can you see?

Now, for your own child’s sake... 

Please - look and see.