Ice

You are pouring
ice
over your heads
while people are suffering
from a disease
you are not donating
to help cure,
while people in other countries
suffer
because they do not have
safe or clean water,
while people
in our own country
feel their eyes burn from a gas
thrown at them
to shut them up, to make them
go away.
If you have the money
to pour ice,
clean water,
over your head,
you can save that money,
that time,
and help these people
who are dying of a lack
of water,
who are dying of disease,
who are dying of oppression.