Life Roles Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Life revolves, each person has a role to play, all
afraid of letting down their guard, in case someone
makes them care about another.

Empathy, you say?

What it's actually called is indifference and it
brings a sense of distance, a feeling of fatalistic
despair.

Yes, no one cares to become involved in this or any
other circumstance.

Life evolves, yet never moves forward, it's the same
now as when it was past.

People regard one another with suspicion, doubting
truths told in unexpected traumas, afraid to believe
or bring aid, lest they be slapped in the face for
doing a good deed.

Where will it lead? When will mistrust be brought
to light and sentenced for what it's not?

Authority figures running rough-shod over fragile
human beings, abused and hurt by situational
circumstances beyond life's control.

Though certain people have done things in the past
that got them into trouble, those days being over,
they're still held tightly against certain individuals.

Authority figures refusing to let go and allow for
reform and changed lives in the present.

Pushing and herding those individuals into corrals
of other's mistrust and doubt, never letting them
forget, never letting them go.

Life revolves, each person has a role to play,
everyone has left out caring for another human being.