Why Nothing Gets Done

please strangers
fall to your knees and pray
to deep darkness
for the world to get better.
pray to a stranger
that other strangers
recover from their strange tragedies.

just pray.
just fall to your knees and speak
to the earless air
what needs to happen.

don’t fix it.
don’t change.
just pray.

pray that one day
someone steps in and saves them,
pray that one day someone
carries love in on a plate,
pray that one day
the burning fear is gone,
pray that one day
the child grows up,
pray that the wicked are punished.
pray that the wise teach.
pray that the lullaby always puts us to sleep.

pray to a stranger because
it’s easy.
pray to a stranger because
then
you wouldn’t have to do anything.
pray to a stranger
so nothing
really
ever
changes.
pray to a stranger so that
you can feel like you did something.

no really,
pray to a stranger
he would want you to wouldn’t he?

if you did something
then he wouldn’t be so needed
would
he?