Margins
People on the margins, bereft, lost
Flotsam, jetsam, wash on the shore
Economy in government claims a cost
The bureaucratic, the closing door
The world ending in floods or wild fire
Lost numbers, each man, woman, child
The impersonal upon the funeral pyre
Compassion costed, migrants reviled
Foothills of madness, life on the brink
A busy world, with no time to talk
Inner turmoil, lives lost in a wink
Eyes closed, turn away, just walk
How many people on the margins must die
Before a deaf world hears their cry?
People on the margins, bereft, lost
Flotsam, jetsam, wash on the shore
Economy in government claims a cost
The bureaucratic, the closing door
The world ending in floods or wild fire
Lost numbers, each man, woman, child
The impersonal upon the funeral pyre
Compassion costed, migrants reviled
Foothills of madness, life on the brink
A busy world, with no time to talk
Inner turmoil, lives lost in a wink
Eyes closed, turn away, just walk
How many people on the margins must die
Before a deaf world hears their cry?
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