Devastating (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The cuts deep, cruel devastating our people shredding the net there to protect them holding them up Falling to the ...
The cuts deep, cruel devastating our people shredding the net there to protect them holding them up Falling to the ...
Indigent families need our help needing our love, to lift them up Society providing the safety net that they may ...
No counsel with them no one beside them their advocates on the chopping block No one their to balance the ...
The indigent, the helpless those who have been beaten down those needing assistance to stand on the ground No counsel ...
Society once believed the laws say so better to have us dwelling living in our own homes But some need ...
We should be sure that we always strive giving the tools keeping families together Instead we are cutting the fabric ...
Something elemental the same as universal rights those endowed by our creator not given by mankind The same as these ...
The vipers John called out seated in power claiming their path righteous while they stand on their neighbors those who ...
Removing their voice in the halls of justice the children, their parents those who care for them Removing their voice ...
In the poison of their anger losing sight of their children wanting to cause them pain the soon to be ...
The work to see to ascertain the truth more than just one layer to get in the way By the ...
The children, the aged, the infirm among us destined to oblivion marginalized in the budget services removed aides eliminated advocated ...
The poison of their anger revenge served cold gutting all social services far into the bone Cutting the advocates the ...
Choosing for them hurting our neighbors them becoming our sacrifice against their will Cutting their services, their benefits limiting their ...
Our choices calling us out the hands of the sinful on the heads of the innocents making them the sacrifice ...
Like the animals in ancient Israel brought into the tabernacle to become the sacrifice The innocent, pure the animals unblemished ...
By the choices we are making standing by, complacent cruel choices holding on to the treasures of this world They ...
The sins remaining though our hands on their heads going to the priests to be slaughtered to pay the awful ...
Speaking from their hearts against cruel choices petitioning for redress before the leaders praying for justice assistance from their neighbors ...
Think about these people the ones they care for the stories they are telling their crying out Not as strangers ...
The choices being made to cut services for the poor, the disabled the aged, our family Tearing the fabric our ...
Knowing the times we live in the groundswell of frustration the distance of the government seemingly, from our day to ...
The mirror before us the filter of Christ his life before us in this season of Lent The choices he ...
Each of us challenged to be warm hearted compassion for our neighbors lifting them up Will we be judged as ...
The plea of a mother of others speaking joining together as if with one voice I beg you to reconsider ...
To abandon their children the unthinkable to give up their homes to lose their freedom The State essential our duty, ...
Those who look to us to simply survive truly in need needing our love our compassion our hope for their ...
On their backs on the least and the last balancing the budget on those who cannot speak Cuts on the ...
Denying services a voice, life taking their freedom to save a few dimes pennies of the budget but at the ...
As one person of faith the challenge of his words to speak out that they would be heard Those who ...
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