Too Late

no one heard our morning prayers
nor did they hear the evening ones
we recited either, as they were too
busy make plans for our future
(without our involvement) or they
were more concerned with our
questions that prevented us from
seeing our own feeble realities,
until those realities had been
destroyed by our reckless actions;
then, and only then, were we
informed of our shortcomings
that could have or should have
been corrected if our prayers had
just been listened to by them.

17Sept16