“People who need…” “Who are the…?”

(with thanks to Bob Merrill)

I have lost my trust in the People;

I have lost my confidence in their humanity.

My abstract faith in spirit and benevolence still glows;

my hope that People still have the ability to access it is intact,

but my belief that the People still care wanly flickers.

Have the People lost the ability for compassion?

Have they lost their desire for thought,
to make up their own minds,

to act out of basic kindness and goodwill 
instead of blind self-interest?

Have the People exhausted the innate ability to nurture, to support,
to take an interest?

Is it now always going to be ‘munitions rather than munificence?

Is there anyone left that “will risk his neck for his brother man,”

or have all those in need of a hand, an arm, a shoulder, help forward,
or a step up been permanently given the shaft?

Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 28 January 2015