This poem is not mine but written by Kurtis Lamkin. The message that is carried throughout his poem is one I like to live by, and it is, that we care and notice what goes on around us but we don't do anything about it so we need to change that and help. My favorite line that he wrote in this poem is "we do what it takes to shake the snake, that coils around our humble lives" it creates a metaphorical visualization  in my mind.