It’s cruel to kill children half a world away
by stopping the flow of their lifesaving medication.
It’s cruel to toss workers out on the street
just because you despise government.
It’s cruel to defund doctors and hospitals
just because you don’t believe in science.
It’s cruel to hate transpeople and the differently gendered
because your idea of sex is puerile.
It’s cruel to insult and bluster and bully and rant
just because you have to get your way.
It’s cruel to take the lifelines from the poor
because you think their lives worth less than yours.
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What twists your souls so much that you inflict
abject, inhuman cruelty on your neighbors?
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All cruelty, Seneca said, begins in weakness.
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William Alfred
A retired college teacher who has turned to poetry in his old age.
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It’s good to be nice and kind and give kids their medicine! Great work!