Pride and Prejudice
Roots of brothers’ enmity
Days of thunder rise
When skin and classes
Did society divide
Into angry masses.
Disabilitating pride
Of prejudice impasses
Bursting into fire
Erasing crevasses.
A powerful dynamite
Abolishing classes
In fatal crossings like
Those of sea lasses*.
Fire raced worldwide
In tragic menaces
Destroying empires
For their trespasses.
World yet divided
Historical enmity clashes
Rooting in the first crime
Abel and Cain’s buried ashes.
By CarolineCécile
March 2007.
* Sea Lasses is a metaphor for cruise ships like the Titanic.
Copyright © Caroline Cécile Delacroix | Year Posted 2009
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