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Why?

Why?
That's the question. Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why do we live in a world that hates change
A world clinging to a past long gone 
Why must hate be so common
Why does the world insist evolution is a myth to progression
Maybe it's just because they thrive in the tension
Maybe because if we cleared the fog of distraction
We would see their truth and teach them a lesson

Why in a world full of colour 
Create division 
Create an hierarchy 
Of importance 
Maybe that's just the art of human behaviour 
One of greed and the itch to own power
The need to feel superior over one another
But the question lingers
Why?
Is equality a foreigner 
Why?
Do people choose to hate or love each other
Instead of allies humans crave enemies 
To claim superiority over those deemed weaker
Of those they claim to be inferior 
But 
The portrayal of a hard exterior 
Is just a mask for the interior 
Where the walls are built from envy 
Haunted by the shadows of jealousy 
An emptiness only fixed 
By becoming racist 
Why?
Because without us they wouldn't exist 
A temporary inhabitant of the earth
For who else would do their labour 
The only thing they know how to do is be slave owners 
After all you can't grow crops by shouting slurs 

Copyright © Layla Riley-Hill

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