How Many?

 

How many secrets never shared?

How many a man never cared

            Enough to know

                        Our crosses borne in silence?

How many lies?

How many blind eyes

            Have looked

                        Yet never seen?

How many tears have been cried?

How many souls have died

            Crushed by the burdens

                        Forced to bear alone?

How many a child has been forsaken?

How many lives have been taken

            By the wounds

                        That can never, ever heal?

How many minds have been corrupted?

How many innocents have suffered

            These terrors

                        Frightened, cold and alone?

How many wrongs have never been righted?

How many times has anyone sighted

            The Fiends

                        Lurking in our own backyards?

How many voices have never been found?

How many of us have been let down

            By those

                        Who are sworn to protect us?

How many daughters have been killed by their fathers,

            Not once,

                        But over and over again?

How many are broken

            Without even a token

                        Of the hope they so desperately seek?

How many were lost,

            And at what cost

                        To you, the blind masses?

How many more screams will never be heard?

How many lessons must we learn

            To put a stop to all of this?

Reviews

[Brenda Sue]

So very deep but makes one stop and think. Wonderfully penned. Excellent job.

[Erin Phoenix]

This a really awesome poem. :)