like many stoutly claim
as members of some Christian faith
love our neighbors as we love ourselves
then why do we look down on those
of different creeds and cultures
skin color, clothes, or hats
suggest to keep them out by building walls,
suspect them of barbarian ways,
let them drown,
put them in camps,
build fences,
stop them at our borders,
prefer
in short
to have them elsewhere
maybe we should love ourselves much more
so we can better love
the tired, hungry, and the poor
who come to our shores and borders
in search of safety and shelter,
freedom, and human dignity
let us remain easy, and truer
to the spirit of our Liberty,
remembering our heritage
and that of our parents
and their parents
most likely immigrants from somewhere
looking for a better place
to have a life and rear their children
it helps to see our neighbors as our friends
rather than enemies
and love them like we love ourselves
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 4:22 AM UTC
the other day
I occupied a chair
at a sidewalk café
watching the vanity fair of the quotidian
float by in quickly changing apparitions
an endless flow of different ages, nations, fashions,
skin colors, miens, ****** expressions, postures & gaits
kept passing through my field of vision
it made me wonder why
some people get so furious
when they just hear about
not even meet
the ‘others’ different from themselves
that they start dropping bombs and shooting rockets
I think they rather should be curious
and eager to discover
how the immense variety of humankind
can help expand a locally grown mind
and recognize
that we are all of the same kind
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 4:21 AM UTC
they are different
just look at them
their skin color their clothing their speech
their customs the way they move their bodies
we like them as tourists
they leave money in our country
and then go home again
if they buy the house next to us
THAT’s different
it takes a conscious effort
to see them not as aliens
but as our neighbors
lest we become aware
that all of us are aliens
in most countries of our globe
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 4:20 AM UTC
apparently
we live in times
in which disasters chase each other
around the globe in never-ending sequence
or is it just the real-time news media hype
that gives us this impression?
yet even if I generously discard
the ****** massacres and crises
far away
there are enough rough dreadful things
that even if they don’t affect me ******
do touch my heart and make me grieve
with the afflicted
methinks we’re coming near the point
when the majority of normal people on our globe
will rise an tell fanatics of all creeds
to shove it
take a shower
just go home
and let us live our lives in peace !
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 4:20 AM UTC
*Scratching for quite some time
on this blank white page,
my emotions flow
shine and glow
till the emptiness
imbibes my thoughts
like raindrops after a drought.*
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 2:07 AM UTC
When the world looks dark,
Sometimes all you have to do
Is open your eyes.
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016 at 2:06 AM UTC
We're born with hopeful wonder
We're born with tempestuous emotion
We try not to get pulled under
But get swept up in devotion
We get older and chip away
Rust in the sinking water
Trying to hold onto Maye
Always unwillingly slaughter
We mutate to an object inhumane
Excuse it with "It's in our DNA"
Seems like we're all on *******
Have brain damage more every day
We **** each other left and right
Trying to cope and manage
Wrecked brain and no sight
We create collateral damage
So don't say "I'm only human"
Blaming everything except yourself
I think it's time you tune in
And take the book off the shelf
Your eyes are covered by your own hands
What is it you fear?
It's pathetic and sad
You can't see you are your own puppeteer
Sep 24, 2016
Sep 24, 2016 at 1:36 AM UTC
Me, a little girl and little words
Always seem to say
These little lines raw and unheard
Will help me get away
Into the labyrinth of my mind
Trapped in its abyss
They all see, but are blind
They all turn and dismiss
We all fake smiles
Living in a monotone world
We all judge, are given trials
Not minding that we're unfurled
We live in endless denial
Thinking everything is fine
I slowly taste the bile
What is wrong with our minds
Being all hypocritical
But never admitting
Always being so analytical
"No, young lady that isn't very fitting"
Saying "Yes, I'll change my ways"
Only to crawl back again
Why this continual craze
We must fix our ways and mend
Cause if we don't, we'll be what we fear
We are in the nightmare, reality
Monsters, killers, death, and tears
We'll be a living dead society
Jul 8, 2016
Jul 8, 2016 at 6:27 PM UTC