This toxic environment…(selfishness)

What is wrong with you people-

That you stand and stare and revel in the mistakes of others?

What is wrong with you people-

That your putrid pleasure comes from the pain and suffering of another person?


What happened to make this a fetid fertile pit of futility

With despair and desperation dribbling down the sides of our decadent lives

Our dreams crumble and turn to dust, mere ashes of former aspirations.

Why can’t we forgive and forget and rebuild and restate

And redress the balance.


This toxic environment-

These wasted moments

These lonely voices

These damaged hearts.


I tell thee look up before it is too late.


© Alison Jean Hankinson

Day 21 Napowrimo2018– Enough said. The theme was narcissism.-