Conversation

 

 

don’t rock the boat

but it’s already sinking

don’t make a noise

but the silence is poisoned

sit on the fence

but it’s splintered and breaking

look the other way

but children are starving

and words taken hostage

crammed into cages

are testing their teeth

on ragged promises

until swollen with anger

nursed by rage

they eat away the edges

of your carefully constructed

sugar coated

money grabbing

nightmare

so where will you look

when the lights go down

on a world that sinks

beneath the weight of your greed