ANYONE EVER SAY TO YOU
Anyone ever say to you
trust us
with what's inside
and then
their God isn't your God
an uneasiness coats the
political correctness of the syrupy words
devoid of
the warmth and acceptance
experienced
before
they knew you?
Anyone ever say to you
trust us
with what's inside
but then
you had to share the pain
in the time allotted
sixty minutes of compassion at a price
as if all you had to do was push a button
for the past to replay
knowing
it just doesn't work this way
wondering what else
the system calls
healing?
Anyone ever say to you
trust us
with what's inside
and then
the looks on their faces
betrayed
whatever compassion and benevolence
they claimed to possess
as you
painted a weeping portrait
of things now lined up
for judgment
in their stony hearts?
Anyone ever say to you
trust us
with what's inside
because we all love each other here
and then find
there is nothing except the
deafening silence of no response
or rejection
because you don't belong
to the hallowed halls of
that experience
so that
you silently wonder at
the woes displayed for centuries
when standing there
arms extended
realizing it is Them
who can't accept You?
Anyone ever say to you
trust us
with what's inside
but must be
affiliated with one
of many little groups
and ideologies
created by people whose world is
a chest of drawers
and you are expected to
think, feel and act
like the drawer you've been placed into
wondering what happened to
one God,
one Country,
one Flag?
İDRV
2004
