I write this with a knot in my stomach and tears in my eyes. Another one lost to their own mind. When are we going to stop being so blind? When will we see the festering sore in society’s eye? The sick are getting sicker. The poor are getting poorer. Devalued down to a dollar sign.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore” but only if you can afford

The treatments

The pills

The stigma galore

Payment of tribute

Growing more and more

Yet the beast it awakens

A beast deep inside

The beast of insatiable appetite,

Her cravings never subside

The beast of purloined sleep who haunts the waking

The soul laments,

Just someone, please!

Please care!

Someone please see!

Im not all who I pretend to be.

This weight is too heavy. Too heavy for me. Please rush to my aid before the beast collapses on me

Asylums no longer

Coverage denied

Except consumers of privilege

The rest left to try to survive

Live on the street or take your own life?

The soul’s cries unheard and unseen

Too absorbed by the LEDs and the next big thing

Obsessed with sociallite

Consumed by materiality

When did I let this define me?

Forgetting the brother, the sister, the lover and friend

Humanity is tied together by one simple thread

“Love one another as I have loved you”

We all need each other in the end