Unanswered Questions
A strange sickness spreads
across our land.
Seeds of hatred, leeching,
Worms, breeding
multiplying..
Vicious, heartless, ruthless
cold.
An infant cries
mournful wails of hunger
A mother injects her vein
with temporary hope.
Father, deaf to the tears of his children,
starts over and over
with someone else.
Compassion…
overlooked for greed.
What corner
still harbors love?
Are faces upturned,
at all?
Janelle Gregory ©
2013