I SIT and look out upon all the drama of the world, and upon all rumors and lies;
I hear secret conversations from young men & woman, about people they don't like, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the young mother mistreated by her baby daddy, dying, neglected, scared, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer of young children;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unknown love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of cures, fixing cancer, control freaks—I see closets and run always;
I observe a famine at homes—I observe the family's casting lots who shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon African Americans, and the like;
All these—All the meanness and lyin without end, I sitting, look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent
