When Will We Awaken?

When will we awaken
from this madness, from this pain?
Has the world fallen completely
and can it rise again?
When victims are the criminals
and offenders earn our praise,
when degradation is encouraged
how do we change our ways?

Parents are too tolerant,
the courts are overworked
the public is too docile
and morality is shirked.

Where is all the outrage
from the people with a soul?
Where are all the protectors
our safety once their goal?
Where are the feminists,
the vocal and the brave?
Where are all the guardians
this child they should have saved?

Gone in just a moment
afraid of too much noise
they scatter like the roaches
and waiting for dark they poise.

What should become of this child
whose life was torn and bled?
What shall we say to this girl
when life goes on ahead?
What are the blue men doing
to keep these children safe?
What I'd give to live somewhere
where these questions didn't exist.