And You Just Say I Don’t Care

And  You Just Say I Don’t Care

Look at the TV or on the street

See the children starving

Hoping for a scrap of food

So they can survive

And you just say I don’t care

The people killed for no reason

Left dying on the street

Killed by a bullet from someone they never met

So many die every day

And you just say I don’t care

Watch the black child

Beaten and harassed for the color of his skin

Hated for something he cannot help

He just wants to grow up just like everyone else

And you just say I don’t care

Listen to the politician

Lying to himself and to you

Pretending everything is okay

While the country destroys itself

And you just say I don’t care

Hear the bomb in a downtown shop

The explosion kills a hundred people

Men, women and children

Killed for no good reason

And you just say I don’t care

However, maybe there will be a time

When you are starving

When you are frightened

When you are the different one

Facing hatred for who you are

But, don’t you dare ask for help

Don’t you dare

Because all you will hear from every voice

A familiar phrase

They all will say I don’t care

And they won’t

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

I want to be like Sylvia Plath

A talented writer

Someone to be admired

As she read her work

Spending time in the darkness

Writing more and more

Still, her mind saw the beauty of the world

Each of her poems showed the woman

The person she was inside

Someone hidden by the torment of her last years

She knew when she wrote her last words

She knew the moment when it was right to give up

Four hundred of her children survived that moment

You can still find them if you look

A modern master who died way too soon

Sylvia Plath will be remembered for the way she lived

All of the four hundred plus poems she wrote

The way she died

You Know Who You Are

You Know Who You Are

You kill women and children

People who do not think as you

Destroying whole villages

Does it make you feel brave

Brain washing kids to kill for you

Do you really think it is what your God wants?

Are you acting in His name

If the answers are yes

Why do you hide your face

Cover it with black cloth

Aren’t you proud of your cause

Are you a coward who doesn’t want to be known

Or do you know it is wrong

You don’t have to answer

Just fXXk the hell off

Go home and leave the world alone

SPAM

SPAM

I am so hungry

Nothing looks good

But I need something

I want something

Something for breakfast

Lunch and dinner

An all in one food

A perfect food

One no one can resist

Even though no one knows what it is

It doesn’t matter

I don’t care if it is a sandwich

A casserole or all alone

I need that special food to live

To be happy

For now and forever more

I need my SPAM