Take the Time to Tie Your Shoes
How long does it take to tie our shoes?
What is it that we’re trying to get out of?
Haven’t we all pulled that move?
Haven’t we all been the Holy Men?
Why is it we turn our eyes, avert our attention?
Why is it that we all aren’t the Samaritan?
We know what we should do, but we don’t.
We see that beaten man by the side of the road.
So we put our heads down, and untie our shoes.
We turn the other way.
He cries,
He dies.
How long will we be tying our shoes?
-Erica B. DiUlio
