Division Against Humanity

Black vs white vs dark skin vs “yellow bone
Men vs women vs straight vs homosexual
Poor vs the rich vs Afro vs weave 
Christian vs Muslim vs atheist 


All are keeping score 
None will ever admit to being wrong 
All are “woke" 
You correct a brother and they'll go all intellectual on you with their fancy words 
And when you don't grasp what’s being said,  your opinion is null and void. 
A sister would rather twist your words and make you look foolish rather than accepting the truth and be nourished 
It's  every creature for themselves,  even at the expense of everything else 

All are hollering their righteousness in the mountains 
It's not about peace, about unity,  hell it's not about the course they claim  to fight for,  it's about gratification not justification 
Everybody rushes  to be “quoted “ 
Nobody hushes down to reach a fair conclusion, 
Because why would they want that?
If a solution is found,  what would they babble on about?,
The “intellectuals “ shall all be heard,
So do the “wise-saints” and the “woke" 
It was never about peace everlasting 
It's about making it in the history book 
Your idealism and ideologies are what important .

Now I’m not saying ignore the injustices of this broken world 
We should all fight to be heard and nobody should be deemed more important than the other 
You don't care about freedom, peace and unity 
If you did , you’d sit down and discuss a way forward and not debate your own ways to win  

What if crime was crime and a criminal,  a criminal 
Instead of an act of injustice against a certain group 
It'll be crime against Humanity , because unity 
Will a man be ashamed to report abuse against a woman? 
Nobody would point at him and see him weak for it because all are equal 
And it's not a woman against man, but an inhumane act against Humanity 
Would the less privileged frail to speak against the elite? 
A child be afraid to speak against family elders? 
Nobody would be punished less than they deserve 
All should fight to be heard and demand equality 
But if we all strive to surpass each other when will the rollercoaster stop?
How many more years should pass in order for us to decide to be humans first,
You’re human before religion, colour, race, gender, sexuality, class, 
You’re a human first.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Bangalee Avatar
November 19, 2020 at 1:17 AM
superb and beautiful humanitarian poem shared; great write; thanks for sharing your humanitarian thoughts
Ntobela Avatar
November 27, 2020 at 1:40 PM
Thank you for reading, I'm honored. As writers we can only do as much.
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