Can You (extended version)

Can you believe that violence grasps our world?
Can you understand the pain it brings, not to one, but many?

Can you hear the women crying from the touch of the large ice cold hands of strange men that hid in the ally ways? Hear the mother's sob for the lost of their sons from war?

Can you taste the blood that fills a victim's mouth from the brutal attack of a street gang? Taste the lies that are told to a parent from a teen to protect their stash of drugs?

Can you feel the shaking of an abused child's body, whipped, stabbed, punched, and kicked? Feel the hole in your chest when a angered high scholar shots a gun at you for calling him a*&%?

Can you smell the stench of death from the lifeless body of a thin manged pet that was abused since they were born? Smell the alcohol from a drunk that wishes to hang himself for the loss of his wonderful life?

Can you believe this hate, this pain exists?
Can you believe it happens everyday of every second?

Can you believe it only when you see it?