A Forgotten Word And Person

Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief.
That old saying forgot to say thief.

For there's more of them
than any of the others.
They steal from everyone,
even their own mothers.

Now here in America
people are buyin' guns,
even those mothers
who are fearin' their own sons.

Now the sun still shines
and the stars are in the sky.
The doctors and the lawyers
are wonderin' why
everyone's lookin' at them
as if they are a thief?
and no one even cares about
the Indian Chief.

poem by Edwina Reizer
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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