Spare a thought

you see an image.
a squirrel in the grip of a cat.
you think, how heartless!
but its just food.

you see another image.
nurses triaging the wounded
at Pearl Harbor,
marking a chalk cross
on the helmet of a bleeding soldier
with little chance of survival.

you think how could this be happening.
but its only survival of the fittest.

yet you see so much more
and scarcely spare a thought.

the greed of ruthless contractors
-- who cares to stop them,

the moral corruption of politicians
-- who could be moved to replace them.

you see so much more.
but you don't feel...
So you don't think,
so you don't do.

You make do.