The Light
Fight like your
Life depends on it.
Shout until your
Throat is raw.
Spread the truth
Until it’s unavoidable.
Make kindness and
Compassion the norm.
Dare to believe the
World can be better.
You are
The light.
Short Free Verse Poems about the Human Condition
Demolish
Rabid zealots
Who quite recently
Would have been
Considered a major
Joke now run the
Institutions charged
With caring for
The entire populace.
With absolute,
Irrational conviction,
They demolish the
Pillars of
Civilized society
And leave in their
Place smoldering
Wreckage and misery.
Wave
They were once
Wealthy and exploited
Their workers with
Unmitigated gusto,
Their status and
Influence unchecked.
Then the bottom
Fell out, their
Joy ride halted
By a tidal wave
Valuing the common man
Instead of the magnate.
They complain bitterly,
Never getting over
The loss of riches
That weren’t theirs
But for the toil
Of the many.
Stake
Regardless of
Steppe or clime,
They band together
Under draconian law.
Subjugating all who
Do not conform to
An archaic, twisted
View of the world.
The suffering
Are always those who
Have no stake in
Perpetuating fear.
Second-Class
No longer
Putting up with
Being forced to
Live as second-class
Citizens
Bowing to
Their oppressors.
They march
In the streets
Not because
They want to
But because
They have
No other choice.
Another Day
It’s clear
He doesn’t
Feel a thing
When he talks
About killing
The youth.
Compassion absent,
He mechanically
Recounts how
He wouldn’t
Change a thing,
Just another day.
Mechanically
It’s clear
He doesn’t
Feel a thing
When he talks
About killing
The youth.
Compassion absent,
He mechanically
Recounts how
He wouldn’t
Change a thing,
Just another day.
Subdued
Another child lies dead,
His killer exonerated,
A life less important.
Entrenched power structure
Preserved, secured,
Protecting its own.
Few tears shed by the
Part of the community
That sees him as other,
An animal to be subdued.
A grieving mother and
Father shake their
Heads in resignation.
Remorse
They
Don’t
Believe
In
Peace,
Only
War.
They
Send
Other
People’s
Children
To
Fight.
They
Feel
Absolutely
No
Remorse,
Just
Profits.