Bystanders
From windows
couches
smartphone screens
the bystanders
watch silently
amazed
appalled
aghast
afraid
of horrors heard
and deaths displayed.
Among them
few
desire change
and sadly
fewer
think it strange.
Bystanders © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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30 words (prompt limit). Stand brevity challenge prompt - link:
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Submitted: June 4, 2020