Charity Starts at Home

If you cage a Phoenix ,
She's bound to burn in flames.

Kill the bird, for its spirit will not seize
- to exist
-to persist
-to resist.

Shoot her in brain, before you try to
-Tame her
-Limit her
-Modify her.

Before you Squash her dreams
and
Paint her average
Slip her, a couple too many sleeping pills.
So she doesn't wake
from her slumber ,
into Your Nightmare.

Before you settle her for ordinary,
Less that perfection
So humble, so simple
So trained for 'society's ways'
Show her the open window
So she may slip therein
and
Be At Peace,

When you feed a million starving
children,
and provide them with their needs
Like Patron Mother Theresa
Resurrected from the grave
Never mind the child of your own
sleeping in the dark
She does not need nutrition
When your words have already fed
her with Ammunition
Against You.
Against those like You,
Who live for appeasing the world
Who live for praise
at the cost of soul.
Who all the while,
displace the fact
that charity starts at home.