Love Poem: Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease

Racism: Humanity's Deadliest Social Disease

The other day
you asked me my friend, who I am
I replied:
I am you in another body!

Yes, it is true
look, how much alike we are,
no matter what, the color,
the creed
the race
the status.

Look,
I am born and I die
I suffer and I enjoy
I love and I hate, just
like you!

I am a father, a brother, a son,
a mother, a sister, a daughter, just
like you!

Happiness I seek
family to raise is my wish
peace to find I look for,
just like you!

I long
I loathe

I fear
I hope

I bleed
I heal, just
like you.

I believe
I doubt

I accept
I refuse

I laugh
I cry, just
like you.

We are alike
we are the same
we are brothers...children of
a unique father!

Tell me,
my brother
my friend
my ally
why do we have to oppose
to fight
to hurt
to destroy and
to eliminate one another?

Are our seas really that narrow
our oceans that small
our lands so limited to
contain all of us?

or

is it the case that
our hearts are not big enough
and our minds not so wide-open to
enfold all of mankind?

Listen to me, my other self;
it is up to us to change this world we have inherited
with its virtues and vices
history and culture
flaws and merits
and
try to make it
better
nobler
kinder and 
more caring

by:

obliterating harmful beliefs
demolishing injurious divisions
destroying detrimental distrust
annihilating racism and eradicating 
the erroneous feeling of poisonous 
superiority

for

to bring the dawn of a new loving world
a world of acceptance
of respect
of justice
of equality
of love and of
universal brotherhood

thus

with peace in our hearts
liberated we would be from past’s
deleterious tribulations
that 
for myriads of years, have kept us,
fighting one another! *






© Demetrios Trifiatis 
       03 JUNE 2020

* Dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and to all those who 
have fallen victims of racism! 

R.I.P. for Justice would be served!