When Life is Cheap

When life is cheap, and you can’t talk about it.
Or you can, but then you are at risk.
Where do you draw the line?
When do you scream out?
When is the right time?
“If not now, when?
If not you, who?”

When life is cheap, and you’re afraid to talk about it.
Because they’ve locked others inside.
And you care too much about your family,
To expose other’s crimes…

Sigh.

When life is cheap, and you yell about it!
And still, nothing happens - what then?
Do you give up? Do you continue to sigh?
Or do you hold your head high,
and decide,
now is always the right time,
to try.