Cries For Help
By Kenneth R. Cabrieto
              
              Sounds like it's raining,
              Sounds like it's pouring,
              Sounds like we're driving,
              Sounds like tires screeching,
              Sounds like sirens ringing,
              Sounds like people dying,
              Sounds like people crying for help.

              A cry for help...
              That's a sound I know so well.
              I cry for help,
              But there is never any to be found.
              No one helps me,
              Not one utter of sound.
              I feel left in the rain,
              Drowning in the thoughts of others,
                            Those who think only of themselves...
                                            ...And I still go unheard,
                                 Unhelped...
                                             And...
                                                   Dying.

              No one hears MY cries for help.

              -March 22nd, 1999