Silence

The stares, the whispers
the silence, the laughter,
the wisher, the dreamer,
the hater, the liar.
The abuser, the bully,
the tears and the broken,
the unwanted and used,
the words left unspoken.
The darkness, the shadows,
the bruised and the bleeding,
the judged and excluded,
the homeless, the needing.
The small and invisible,
the wounded, the hiding,
the bet and the profit,
the dead and the dying.
The things they aren't saying,
And the things we aren't writing.