Please don't judge my son

Please Don't Judge My Son
By: Rose Barbour 

There’s an unshakable ache inside my heart

The words you say that tear me apart

While you see a junkie and scum of the earth

I see the child who I’ve loved since birth.

I love him today as much as I did then

That you judge him so cruelly is an absolute sin

You look in disgust at my sick young man

When you could instead, make him feel worthy again.

With your cruel words, you keep him down

There’s no place for “them” in this nice town

You’d rather see him suffer another day

Than to lend a helping hand and lead the way.

What you don’t understand or seem to know

Is that attitudes like yours cause it to grow

A compassionate society will kill this disease

That thrives in shame, secrecy and general unease.

So many are dying, while some are barely alive

Simply existing in the world trying to survive

A slave to a disease that knows no bounds

As we turn a blind eye, it is making its rounds.

Let’s talk about it and bring it into the light

Let’s not let it win, together let’s fight

Let’s stop the judging and our misguided hate

Let’s open our arms to those we underrate.

Please give my boy hope and all the others

That we won’t stand by and lose another

We want them to get well and will do what it takes

To bring them back home for all our sakes.

Rose Barbour

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