Jg Collins Poet Prose Poetry

Infection

Humanity is
infected.
Infected with
 malice.
Infected with 
hate.
Infected
with fear!
Infected with
Ideas of
difference.
Thoughts of
exclusion.
We 
come to
existence
the 
same way.
Born with
clean slates.
Once born
infection occurs.
Clean slates
filled with
local thoughts,
local ideas.
Ideas of the
ancients.
Fear of
the other.
Fear of 
the other
side of the
mountain,
other side 
of the sea!
Ancient ideas
of fear and
exclusion.
Fear of the
others infection.
Clean slates
polluted with
archaic thoughts,
pitting one 
against another.
Clean slates 
soiled 
with fear,
filled with
nonsense.
Clean slates
brainwashed,
infected,
controlled 
by the 
powers
of fear!

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Annie Brunson August 20, 2019 at 12:23 PM I am a composer and am just starting a choral work. A musical/media journey from being alone, to tribal identity, to the horrors of division (genocide, bigotry etc), to shared humanity and hope. I came across your poem INFECTION, and I would love to use it (with credit obviously). I am just in the beginning stages of planning, and anticipate it will take at least 2 years to write all the music. But I would so like to incorporate your brilliant poem into the work.