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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