Are We So Blind

Do you ever stop to think That the stars are out Even in the daytime? Oh, they’re there all right, but We’re blind to their existence. How true of life itself! If we don’t see something In front of us, it’s as if It isn’t really there. Poverty? We don’t see it In our neighborhood. Devastating weather events? We see them on television, But they’re not here. They’re some other place. Bullying? Mocking? Victims of prejudice? Awful, but it happens in That other neighborhood. People without enough to eat? Sick people without heat? Dying people who Can’t afford their medicine? Native peoples fighting to save Their land and clean water? They’re out there somewhere. But are we really blind or Or do we just not want to see? Just as daytime stars are there, Reality is reality, whether We see it or not, and we can’t Go on pretending it isn’t there.