The universal question one needs to ask

The universal question one needs to ask

When one’s life is wracked with constant despair

Is there any real hope out there?

Why when everything is so endlessly hopeless

Does the world turn its back on one in such a mess?

What happened to human empathy?

A simple kindness shown by one person to another

Goes a long way to restoring some dignity to a soul

Just a little compassion is what’s needed, not one’s sympathy

This is all a soul torn in two by constant humiliation

asks, at times actually pleads for

Can you honestly say that you provide this?

Can you honestly say that you show a friendly open door?

If you can honestly look deep within and answer yes

Then you are one of the few who do

To those of you who have answered no to these questions

It is time you put yourself in another’s shoes

Take a walk in this broken, humiliated soul’s shoes

And face the ridicule and brutalization

This soul is subjected to on an ongoing basis

Then maybe next time you come across this hopeless soul

You will not be too quick to cast judgment

In this souls direction

You will not sit on the sidelines,

You will provide the much needed empathy and compassion

For if it were you in this position

Would you not want the same from those you call friend?