We Measure And Flatten

the world through how share
the statistics that we hear hurled
by important people at each other
across a media, where
what the numbers mean
is only the start of the argument
about how to share our wealth
with people we never meet,
the measure of whose existence
is how much they suffer.

Our distance from the needy
is something we keep for our benefit.
The rich no longer have the loose change
to give to the beggars they pass on the street
-they are too detached in their security
and now they only use smartphones,
on which they store their visa details.

When being able to feel means feeling pain
for whatever reason, whether real or feigned,
then any and every unfeeling serenity 
will always always be our route to insanity.