One day, <br />When the importance of being human... <br />Becomes thought of as a gift to share, <br />With others equally blessed and knowing it... <br />This experience called 'life', <br />Will become more than war and defeat of another... <br />To feed the greeding, <br />Of those insecure and barbaric. <br />Who are dependent upon those they kill. <br /> <br />And... <br />With a deceiving to manipulate their own kin. <br />Only to take what their own parents have to offer, <br />To then abandon them to die in convalescent homes. <br /> <br />One day, <br />When the importance of being human... <br />Becomes thought of as a gift to share, <br />With others equally blessed and knowing it... <br />This experience called 'life', <br />Will become more than war and defeat of another... <br />To feed the greeding, <br />Of those insecure and barbaric... <br />Who are dependent upon those they kill.<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-then-abandon-them/
