Carrying Hope
Carrying
hope for others who
cannot.
Speaking out for others who cannot:
beaten and bullied by the gang,
the ones who have a duty of care but do not.
The glass partition where you are not heard.
Do
you not notice how they treat us?
says a friend.
The
vulnerable that are violated.
Systemic disfunction: the screwy
mess kept together with silence and fear.
The
vile toxic mixture,
Omerta
–
the Sicilian code of violent,
caustic
silence.
Does
it run through all
our institutions
from
the top to the bottom?
Top
down from Number 10.
Silence
the voice, cut the funding.
Restrict
the oxygen of free speech.
Surely
the Emperor has no clothes
and
is truly in the altogether.
© Patrick Joe Kelly, all rights reserved. Contact Joe at art21crpd@gmail.com.