Enough Poem by Nina Dringo

If you shriek loud enough
Maybe someone will hear you
And check if you are all right.

If you cry hard enough
Maybe someone will come
And wipe a tear off of your cheek.

If you laugh long enough
Maybe your joy will pass
To those you love most.

If everything we do
Impacts something else
Someone else

Why do we hate?
Why do we start wars
That are unnecessary?

Why don't we care
About other human lives
And instead continue surviving selfishly?

I don't claim to be brilliant
Smart, even
Not dumb

All I know
Is this
And it's enough.