Is there a reason…

Is there a reason…

For wishing people harm

Laughing at misfortune

Sharing secrets to the world

Breaking someone’s trust

To feel powerful

Posting a live feed of an accident

Demanding it as a right

To stand your ground

When you are armed

To prove you are the bigger man

Because you can

Is there a reason…

To need a moment's grace

Feel a fresh wind on your face

Stand in someone else’s shoes

Know what it’s like to choose

Between an education

And a full stomach

When to be a bread-winner

Puts the dinner on the table

A family need will always

Trump the one

It stands to reason

Is there a reason…

Children have to cry

Unknown soldiers have to die

Immigration is a dirty word

When it was a truth

That built the world

A displaced refugee

Is another person’s pilgrim

We should remember

Where we all came from

It will help us know

How far we have left to go

Is there a reason…to suffer