Anomie

Dowry, drug addiction, and domestic violence rule Female foeticide and female infanticide go cool. Abortions, corruption, and gender inequality Racism, human trafficking, casteism, and poverty Food adulteration, wealth hoarding, consumerism, and greed With many such evils, we, as a society, bleed. Where are our good-bad consciences and consciousnesses? Where are our ethically fit philanthropic choices? Like a crack in the rail track, there's moral delinquency. There's a slip of synchrony in the social symphony. Virtues, like iron in saline waters, are eroded. Human regulations seem to be, from somewhere, goaded. Are our weak feet slipping from the edge of a worn-out cliff? Do we, in our sailing, seek for each leg a single skiff? Our link to each other, to shun anomie, should unite. Though small, for the good of all, shouldn’t we bestow our mite? Ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion should end. Our knees, to compassion, temperance, and justice, should bend