VICTIMS

Sometimes it’s a circumstance,
A change in life resembling chance,
Sometimes it’s a consequence,
Decisions made with no defense,
Sometimes it’s a hurtful word
Leaving scars once we’ve been burned,
Sometimes it’s a lie that’s heard,
Believed too long before we learned.

Other times we’re singled out,
Or so it seems to those in doubt,
While other times a violent act
Can leave us where we can’t relax,
Still other times we’re stricken down
By sickness as it makes its rounds,
Or other times wrong place, wrong time
We witnessed things now stuck in mind.

The truth is that some time or other
All of us are victimized,
Not one escapes this world unharmed
By pain and hurt and sin and lies.
We all could claim the reasons why,
Excuse behavior, rationalize
Behavior that does not become
The children of the Holy one.


KDC 10/08