Abbigale Jordan Mann Poet ABC

Hide Behind Your Mask If You Will, We Are All Killers

Strike the bells, 
At half past three,
Hark natures choir,
And then listen to me. 

Listen to the trees sing along,
Leaves rustling high and low,
Hear how birds chirp out of 
tune,
It's a present from the world 
wrapped in a bow. 

Details float around you,
But you're too consumed to 
see,
To blind with electronics,
From gaming systems to caller 
I.D. 

You hear not how the trees 
beg,
Not you, Elizabeth, not even 
Jim,
Pleading for their survival day 
after day,
As your workers, or parents, or 
children slaughter them. 

You hear not the turtle and fish 
choking,
Silently they wept,  
Deep below, in the depths, 
crying, 
Till they sunk lower to their 
deaths. 

Stop harming your home,
Stop killing innocent creatures,
How is that we aren't in jail? 
We are all, though some are 
hidden, murders. 

You kill the ocean,
He kills the animals, stealing 
hay,bails and bails! 
Yet she kills the people,
And only she is put in jail. 

They die quiet and out of sight,
But only she is deemed wrong,
While the rest of you creep 
quietly,
Replacing your mask on your 
face and carrying on.

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