A Day In Your World

Inspired by realizing how lucky I am to have a peaceful family...and seeing how many things I take for granted...and how good people are at putting on masks...etc :

I looked at your world

With judgement too swift.

I saw a perfect life

With nothing hard to lift.

"Perhaps some family's trials

Make it a mere troublesome,

Yet the flood of laughter and friends

Outweighs all the cumbersome.

I went through the week,

And as night came,

My boredom began to leek.

It outweighed my gratitude

As I fell asleep.

A gunshot sounded and I opened my eyes

Out screeched a life-haunting scream

I leaped out of bed

And I saw child's tears to fill a stream

She held her mother's head

Now wane, trembling, and frail.

Pained and unfathomably horrified

At her husband's cruel betrayal.

The little girl looked at me

With a grasping stare to make my blood curdle.

"Be thankful you only  have night,

Instead of a day within my world." 

Author's Note

This one's kind of depressing, but I hope you guys still like it. I was just at school and I realized how hard some people's lives are but they don't wear it on their sleeves. I respect that!! My life is SO much easier than most, but I complain a LOT so I wrote this. Okay, I'll stop monologuing. Enjoy.

Reviews

[Aleyah]

Very fluid! I love it! Very....I wanted to use the word poetic but, that's too general and kind of lame, to be frank :). Anyway, the last half is so touching, it gave me chills. And I completely agree with you on the subject matter. You and I have it so easy, and even when we think that things are difficult, someone out there would rather deal with our problems everyday than their own. Fantastic! This is a real beaut. (: