You Walk By
You walk by
I'm left outside
You see
I'm left outside . . . full poem
You Walk By
You walk by
I'm left outside
You see
I'm left outside
You walk by
You go inside
Eat inside
Shop inside
Go to work inside
Go to school inside
Get medical care inside
Knowing
I'm left outside
even left to die
It's the road to . . .
genocide
You keep your work
I'm fired
You know, you know
I'm fired
You know, you know
It's wrong
Yet you go along
Leave me outside
It's the road
to genocide
I'm locked at home
You know, you know
Yet you go outside
Leave me locked inside
If I were black, and you were white,
would you walk on by
If I were a Jew, and you a Christian,
would you walk on by
If I were gay, and you were straight,
would you walk on by
You know, you know
Show love not hate
Don't discriminate
Be fair
Be just
But it's just
easier
to walk on by
to lock your heart
block your heart
You walk by
You know
You know
inside your heart
it's not right
it's wrong
It's the road
to genocide
Is it . . .
You don't dare to care
Or you are too numb to care
You walk on by
You go along
with doing harm
with walking on the road
to genocide
Do you keep walking by?
Please, don't walk by
Walk with me, be with me
Walk with us, be with us
Show love not hate
Don't discriminate
Be fair
Be just
All of us together
Elsa
Friday, January 7, 2022
This came in the morning,
sparked by a song I heard the day before (More of Us than Them) ,
and by my asking myself:
how do we reach those who walk on by?
words, copyright, ©, 2022, Elsa Schieder, all rights reserved
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YOU WALK BY.
I'm left outside.
The road to genocide.
You know, love not hate,
don't discriminate.
Political poem. Freedom poetry.
Time for justice.
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Political Poem, Freedom Words.
Because we're on
the road to genocide.
Time for another road.
Love, not hate.
Don't discriminate.
Freedom, human rights.
People deaf, frozen with fear.
Mind-numbed. Heart-numbed.
And I stand unbelieving.
I reach with this
political poem,
with this freedom poetry.
And with knowledge -
reaching is possible.
Elsa
January 10, 2022
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Because we're on
the road to genocide.
Time for another road.
Love, not hate.
Don't discriminate.
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