"A house divided"* - Home
Looking around,
and all that I see,discord, disrespect, dishonesty, disgust,
People in the streets
having not a place to stay,
nor food to eat,
and no one to help them
who would much rather bite their tongue,
and sit on their hands
and say and do nothing at all
than to call this place home.
Wishing for better circumstance
that they may never find.
Unity,
on rare occasion
is to be found here
Whenever people can
they unify over vehement feelings
about one thing or another,
share the same struggle,
but not to appreciate the good.
However, this isn't usually the case...
So soon thereafter...
Riots and altercations on the next avenue,
whether caused by petty disputes,
unfair treatment,
or a variety of other issues,
often paradoxical to the way liberty is portrayed in
the red, white, and blue
as the rest of the earth
it surely seems to cause
"a house divided."*
We do not have war anymore,
but among ourselves.
No longer wars against brothers,
or so it is thought,
nor the international kind,
but internal wars
Love is spread,
however sparsely found in the States,
sadly the same can be said about the rest of the world.
This world that we all call our
Home.
*"A house divided" is a phrase used in a speech made by Abraham Lincoln prior to the Civil War to describe the division/sectionalism in the Union.