Forsaking Our Lives

“Who are we to judge the alcoholic or the prostitute or the addict or the criminal as if we’re any better?

Who are we to forget the down trotted or the oppressed or the marginalized while we go about chasing 'the dream'?

We see this imbalance and we say ‘That’s not right, that’s not fair’

A little too often that’s all we do because for us to do more is actually going to cost us something.

And if that’s where it ends, perhaps then its fair to say that when we ignore the prostituted child that we actually lend our hand to their abuse.

That when we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress that we actually add to their pain.

When we ignore the slave who remains captive that its us who's entrapping them.

That when we forget the refugee that’s it’s us who displacing them.

That when we chose not to help the poor and the needy that we actually rob them.

Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others we actually forsake our own.”