A Thin Veil

Why do kids carry knives to school

Knowing they could be used

A thin veil of make up and a knowing smile

Disguises for the abused

Why do dreams tantamount to dust

Continually in this day and age

And why do poets continue to write

For victims on a page

At night a young girl walks out on her boy

Trying to stem the flow

A thin veil of silence no words exchanged

As he watches her go

Sometimes a relationships status

Is so difficult to gauge

And why do poets continue to write

For victims on a page

A young girl sleeps in a doorway

Just another town stray

The thin veil of hope that's in her eyes

Is slowly ebbing away

She's a dreamer an artist a talented soul

With a beauty that belies her age

And why do poets continue to write

For victims on a page 

A mother sits at a bedside

Knowing her heart will break

She clings to that thin veil of belief

That her daughter will wake

The prognosis has been difficult

Bleak at every stage

And why do poets continue to write

For victims on a page 

An M,P stands on stage

After a race too close to call

Elected on a thin veil of promises

That change is coming for all

An honest days work he tells them

For an honest wage 

And why do poets continue to write 

For  victims on a page 

A soldier waits in the darkness

Ready to attack

Safe in the thin veil of knowledge 

That his brothers have his back

He thinks briefly of home

As the order comes to engage

And why do poets continue to write

For victims on a page

These thin veils of emotion

That we hold in our hearts

Inspiration a spoken word

Is often where it starts

And these emotions will aid us 

And will help us stand

And that's why poets write for victims

On pages throughout the land