of rights and blights

Rights - the goddamn Rights
the citizens and the denizens
the peoples and the politicians
the power brokers and the power creators
the starved and the well fed
the poor and the rich
the disciples and the gods.

Rights - they exist in abundance
for each one for every one
attaining different parameters but always there
but the convulted textbook left out the Duties
Rights to perform Duties.

we cling to Rights and shirk from Duties
it's always not mine but somebody else's
and the leaders scream from rooftops
what they forgot to do or don't want to
from rostrums of glory they address the shackled
birth Rights, human Rights, dying Rights - blah, blah
the votes they gain theirs by Right
and Duties - there weren't born to perform
so forgive them and save the world.