The Way It Is

I tell you what I believe in and I am a madman

The man with the trust fund and suit tells you, he is a visionary

The ones who call others sheep are the ones

Who go to work every day, pay their taxes, buy the expensive car to impress their neighbor

The ones who say "my hard earned money shouldn't go to healthcare"

When their hard earned money goes to mindless carnage overseas

When the fruits of their labor do not even get to be enjoyed

Instead they go to the man who owns the orchard

We teach our children to be kind

To take care of one another

To protect the weak

What happens between then and adulthood

Where walking passed a homeless man dying on the street does not incite riots

The woman who died on that street last week

Looks down on him and us and weeps

"Did my suffering teach you nothing? Did I die in vain?"

She did. That's what we're telling her

A timeless quotation taught in ever school

"The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing again and again and expecting a different result"

It's all well and good to think these things, apparently

To talk about it over dinner and pity the less fortunate

But to do something about it?

Insanity