It is only on the blood stained curb
where you realise
that people are inherently selfish,
when they get on with their empty activities,
hurriedly avoiding your blackened eyes
as they struggle to avoid their own guilt.
The taciturn are not any less culpable
than the perpetrators of violence, and
more nefarious yet
are the ones who bask in the harm
and find delight in destruction.
Standing over you like ominous mountains,
they point their jagged fingers in your direction.
Yet there is still the saving grace of humanity;
The ones who stop, dust you off and pick you up,
the ones who show real concern for your welfare,
the people who genuinely care.
On both sides of the pavement
is clear proof of good and evil;
it is up to us which path we choose to take.
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