I Dream A Day

If it isn't art
its therapy
is common still
a conception;
pill luxury
candy reserved
for western
consumption.

While the cat
still sleeps
in the shade
when it desires;
free to come
to go anywhere
to dream dreams
as only it may.

I dream a day
humanity swears
eternal friendship
with humanity;
when children
shall not
be neglect bred
indiscriminately.

In this world
prodigiously
in third world
to be cast forth;
helpless starved
weak unregulated
progeny doomed
to starvation die.

Shelter lacking
clothes food
cave love leaving
yielding dark;
warmth primeval
wombs to be
to soon cast
into clogged;

graves
on disused
diced roadsides
desolation;
worming
famine across
an indifferent
merciless ecology.

poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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