Walking With Your Eyes Closed

Walking with your eyes closed





Kids roam in the streets
as schools cry for more seats,
Many sleep in hunger
while food in the bin creeps.

Can you lend a helping hand, 
rather than walk with eyes closed ?

Youth smitten by money
losing morals to iniquities,
Drenched in luxuries
a living masquerade.

Can you catechize ethics
Or still walk with eyes closed ?

Abusing nature for greed
exploiting feeble and fleece,
Plundering water and soil
looting air and oil.

Can you fix up this and end 
Or blindness would you pretend ?

Proving valour in bouts of spar, 
To quench this thirst in name of war,
Sitting on throne conquered in ashes,
crowned in Bloodshed.

Would you aggrandize and greet?
Treasure time, will else fleet,
And stop walking with your eyes closed. 




Written Feb 22nd, 2017 
For contest by Jamie
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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