R 18

If the World is a Stage
Then When I Die
I Imagine that
I could Make Love
to Salvador Dali
Or to God
Or the Devil
Who Knows
I do not Know
But I imagine Hay Bails
Wasn't it Claude Monet that painted Hay Bales
In his Later Years
When We are Freed
From Our Earthly Bodies
Perhaps the Human Spirit
Lives On
Bouncing Like
The Speed of Light
If We are to Respect the Dead
And I Worship Winston Churchill
If We are to Respect the Dead
We are to Respect
The Lives of Our Children
Please
Please
Please
If We see that Our Children
Are off the Rails
We must NOT
Stand Back and Judge
As a World
And as Nations
Our Mentally Disabled
Are in Dire need
Of Safe Passage
Through Life
We cannot
And Simply
Must Not
Stand Back
When Enmity
And Hatred
Of One Another's Weaknesses
When People are Young
That is the TIME
to Intervene
And Please
Give Everyone of Them
HOPE
I would Give Everything
I have to be Sixteen again
And Simply
Play the Piano
Alas I no Longer Play
Please Protect the Young
Don't Stand Back
While they are being Bullied
Or Raped
And having Murder Attempts
On their Lives
In God's Eyes
We are All Diamonds
Even the Mentally Ill
So Keep them Safe
In Future PLEASE
I have LONGED to Go to My Grave
Since I was Twenty
Only if We Protect
Those with Mental Illness
And Give them Equal Rights by Law
Will We Cure this Dilemma
Psychiatry at the moment is Pitying
Fractured
And Judgmental
We must Please
Set up Work Houses
For the Mentally Ill
And the Unemployed
And Ex-Prisoners
So that these Peoples
Psyches can Heal
It is Simply
Un Christian
To Settle for
Watching them Self-Destruct
With the Knowledge that They
Are NOT Accepted
That is the Key
To Heaven

I Give Thanks to God
For Every Day
Spare those that are Weaker
And Demonstrate Humility
And Kindness
Actions Speak Louder
Than Words
We must Not Condemn
It is Un Godly
Make a Place
For them
In Our Society
PLEASE