You thought that you were so different
Until
you met someone much like yourself
Maybe
in a dream
Another
lifetime
A
nightmare
Or
a drunken despair
He
had no legs
She
was missing feet
The
little boy was blind
And
the girl, due to Alzheimer’s
had lost the memories in her mind
From
war, everyone lost someone they knew
From
famine, the body count seemed infinite
Global
Pandemics made for disparaging averages,
‘Lucky
to be alive,’ even in sadness, united
Making
death the unifying factor,
among seemingly
opposites
Still
think we are different,
Universal
Laws, laugh at human ignorance
The
indifference of intolerance
Coupled
with natural disasters
Eventually
yields a oneness
And
unveils the pettiness of unnatural dualities
Hell-on-Earth
has a way of debunking
the concept of Big-I’s and Little-You’s
Sheds
light on the darkness of
racism, sexism, and nationalism,
Luminates
deep seated hatreds
fueled by clannish cultures,
unjust laws, one-sided traditions and
evil people who hide behind the good of
religious principles
Darkness
only prevails in the absence of light
Think
you are so different
Does
the Earth have to swallow itself up
in order to change the hearts and minds of
its inhabitants
Maybe.
And
maybe given a few more tragedies
You will think again.
New
Thought:
One Planet
One People
One Peace
Connected - All Lives Matter!
A
Poem by,
F. Alexis
06.15.20
