In the name of fairness

In the name of fairness

In the name of my fairness

everyone should have been sexually abused by their fathers

everyone should have been neglected by their mothers

everyone should have lost their baby

everyone should have no money to their name

everyone should be jobless

everyone should have inflammatory bowel disease

And then what?

When others have what I don’t my heart bleeds

And so what?

In the name of fairness

we’d all be ill

In the name of fairness

we’d all be disabled

In the name of fairness

we’d all be poor

We forget that fairness

isn’t really fair

or at least not very functional

If we were all in the same position

who would be left to help us?