Some people say

 

We are not up to par

 

Then I ask them

 

Have you made it this far?

 

 

 

Are you a family

 

Tall and strong?

 

Do you stand

 

In the far and long?

 

 

 

We made progress

 

But perfect we are not

 

How we are blind

 

And how we forgot.

 

 

 

It used to be

 

That we were one.

 

Families were all

 

And a friends was a son.

 

 

 

But do we listen

 

To our own?

 

Do we ask

 

Or make it known?

 

 

 

I needed help

 

I asked everyone around.

 

Did you listen?

 

Or did you just hear the sound?

 

 

 

I’m going to jump

 

You didn’t care

 

I told you this

 

You didn’t share.

 

 

 

The words didn’t matter

 

You didn’t see

 

How your lack of care

 

Affected me.

 

 

 

I will always listen.

 

I will always see.

 

Help I will never deny

 

To those in need.

 

 

 

So I will go

 

And make you see

 

You should have listened

 

And saved me.

 

 

 

I will survive

 

Without your hand.

 

But I will miss

 

This family land.

 

 

 

You should have listened

 

And saved me.

 

Saved us.