No Conscience Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

No Conscience

Short
but powerful,
and needs the most attention!

do you remember?
Human smuggling?
this is not a joke

last night
47 foreigners
packed in a truck
crossing to England
it was in Hoek Van Holland
the driver was caught by a police dog
trained to smell human odors

Oh, poor souls
their journey comes to an end
spent so much money
even more in trouble now
the driver has been arrested
he has thrown his conscience far away

©Sylvia Frances Chan - All Rights Reserved
7 December 2023