Best Bystander Poems

As you sit in your car
All dressed in black.
 You know,
It didn’t have to end like this
Now as you think back you remember
The faint white scars etched in her fair skin
And the timid smile that hid years of despair
 You remember that time your friends...

Continue reading...

Up-standers ask a bully to please stop.
But not in a bullying voice.
Understand?
Head nod.

Down-standers join the bully.
They call the victim names too
Scared they will be the next target if they do not.
Cowards.

By-standers stand by,
Trying to ignore what is happening, feeling badly later
Wishing they had been an...

Continue reading...

On one daring day, when the bruising sun was yet to set
And unfold the opportunities of an anticipated and hopeful day.
A bystander sprouted out from her shell into the dew
Hardly aware of the blindfolds of reality
She set off; ready to feed her eyes what it...

Continue reading...

Ricochet bullet,
a bullet with someone else's name written on it ...
It makes a 45-degree right turn off the concrete pavement,
and finds you instead
You just went to the corner gas station
to buy some potato chips and a loaf of bread
But now you're going to the morgue
with...

Continue reading...

Mr. Bystander why can't you 
hear me scream.
Mr. Bystander why can't you see me suffering. 

Mr. Bystander. 
Oh Mr bystander 

Dont ignore my agony.
Don't ignore my Pain. 

Mr bystander.
Oh Mr bystander don't ignore the 
corruption and victims of the world.

Mr. Bystander you are a witness....

Continue reading...

they fall upon me, each bent on doing harm
I fight them, for what I know now, as my life
kicking, stomping, flailing, smashing
their fury only increased by the affront
of my fruitless attempts to obstruct them
this angry little mob, of angry little men


a voice rings out, a...

Continue reading...

Surrounded by clowns
In a circus she's running
Wearing no make-up
You become the misplaced one
Flagged as a mere bystander...

Continue reading...

I remembered those times:
whether it was rain or shine,
the sounds of isolation and gatherings
of strangers walking by.

There has never been a day I do not wonder:
How I'd end up here in the first place?
How they came to be?
What all of it meant?

The interaction of people:
The...

Continue reading...

Roses are red, 
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet, and perhaps so are you
But you admire another 
And I am stuck a bystander
As you grow closer
Silent
Why can't you see? 
I've given up hope
You might never like me...

Continue reading...

I taste the flowers on the floor,
smashed beneath your boot, and 
choke 
on their heady perfume, 
finding it difficult to inhale
broken petals.

They are a puddle of
crushed velvet,
soft
like the stillness after you
breathe away
the steadiness of your spine
and allow your shoulders to curl 
inward.

You don’t let me...

Continue reading...

I am thankful for my mortality,
 
For if I were immortal, I would not cherish life.
 
I say this, yet my actions suggest otherwise.
 
6,211 days on this earth—
 
And I must have only seen a hundred sunsets.
 
How many more will I miss?
 
149,064...

Continue reading...

my Soul begets My heart

my Heart begets My mind

my Mind begets My consciousness 

my Consciousness begets My awareness

my Awareness begets My being

my Being begets My energy

my Energy infuses My infinity

my Infinity inf ,...,..,.,...

Continue reading...

innocent bystander
wears the stain of guilt
a blind eye
turning away
shames blamelessness...

Continue reading...

Courage is to stand up for another
On social media,
To ask the coward to delete 
The mean
To not show the victim
For feelings might not crush
Or crucify her
If she is never told

Resist the urge to be cruel 
Or mean
Little bullies are
Usually tormented 
By big bullies 
Unseen

Do not...

Continue reading...