STATISTIC

Statistic

I'm not a pixel

On a government graph

I'm a person who knew

How to love and to laugh

Not a stat to be twisted

For somebody's gain;

I'm a father, a mother,

A lover, a name.

I'm a life that was filled

With a heart and a soul

Not a throwaway number

Not fraction, but whole.

I'm a photograph smile

On a sitting room wall

And a front door that's shut

To an emptier hall

I'm a memory lived

And a grief that is new

No I'm not a pixel

I am us,

I am you.