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Sympathy of the Vultures

There was once a time where I felt that the world 
Fell apart.
And all that knew me were but
Vultures, circling and waiting 
For me and my loved ones to fall,
To die.
Just to have some satisfaction in their
Boring worlds, 
Lives revolving around the pain of others.
For they need pain for their 
Shallow, 
Pitiful, 
Nearly sad lives, 
To bring interest to themselves
Through the talk of 
The pain of others.

My little brother had fallen
ill, 
A sickness no God would
Wish on a child. 
And yet, how were they to tell me that they
“Pray for him,
When he asked, at the fledgling age of 
Four, 
When and if he was to die. 
The doctors that saved his life in 
Those weeks, 
I felt, 
Were the only ones that could talk to me of 
Perseverance and Hope
For while they gave him life threatening poisons to 
Save his life
At the cost of his body,
At least they based their hopes
Upon actions rather than 
The obscure sympathy of a vulture.

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Apathy

It could be worse
my problems are hardly there
she has it worse 
her parents are divorced
and no one will talk to her
he is slowly losing his hair
thinner by the day
maybe he will live through the month to 
his eighth birthday

My depression is nothing
tantamount to the mountain out of 
a molehill
in a society defined out of mountains
obstacles to climb 
competing for attention
no one cares about anyone 
else’s problems. 

Apathy is slowly and surely replacing 
our empathy
and yet no one sees that people’s problems 
are more than farcical 
attempts to draw attention
that between the bad and the worse 
some people still have it rough
that  even if you personally aren’t suffering enough

you still hurt

Blowing off our hurt in exchange for our pride
doing the same to everyone else
‘cause if they can’t see us
 then we surely don’t
want to see them
empathy given that isn’t returned
is something for the price of nothing that 
maybe could make 
the world a better place

a better person

Exchange our apathy for some empathy
start to heal ourselves
for maybe we only need someone to see
that maybe we aren’t so bad

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Black-Billed Magpie

of mischief and theft
swoop low! brightness of eye, and-
slyer than you seem

August 13, 2021

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Sandhill Crane

In wet dusk air we
Watched as you stalked across
Traffic to the pond