Monday, December 21, 2015

12-20-2015 (warning - not a warm and fuzzy Christmas poem)

5 days 'till Christmas
kind words spill over,
a sweet volcanic eruption
that could destroy you

a Hallmark photo-shopped world
that explodes with goods and wants

we complain about

water pressure,
global warming
work stress

while someone
lives in a make-shift box,
tattered and soggy

has gone days
without a shower

has lived in the streets
since she was ten

endures the temperature
changes while the rest of us
overuse the world to the point
of its exhaustion

tired of our fast-paced lives
we are running 'till
we run out of time

and she only wishes
for her time to run out

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