All Because of a Decision
Why should I worry?
Why should I care about them?
The starving
The sick
The homeless
They are no concern to me
I see them tattered and hurting
Huddling in cardboard boxes
Shivering in winter’s coldness
Their humanity wasting away
Turning them into mere shells of who they were
They may not have made the right choices
But they did decide to choose
They gave it all away
When all is said and done
If I lost the life I have
Starving, sick and homeless
Would anyone worry about me?
Would anyone care?
Why would they?
My decisions would not allow them to
I didn’t worry
I didn’t care
Maybe I should have even for a moment
Yet I didn’t
Not even for a moment
So now I suffer alone
With no one to care
No one to worry about me
I will live and die alone
And no one will care
All because of a single decision
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