Breaking Down

By

Serena Mossgraves

the news speaks
of another death,
a child found in tragedy,
and the thought begins
that society is
breaking down.

perhaps it is but the symptom
of the design,
a disease of the collective mind.
darkness seeping from each corner ,
so the only ones that see
the ones that suffer,
are the childlike.

Society is
breaking down
and not a soul
notices…