Sunday, December 28, 2014

Dissipate the Darkness

My spoken word poem on deleting injustices, mainly prompted by racism/segregation, The Michael Brown case, police brutality, etc. It would be pretty cool to find a way to get rid of all this crap, while wishing we were in a utopia… Enjoy! Last modified 2-6-15!




Oh injustice…
Do you remember the days standing in your grade school classroom… facing the flag… right hand over your heart… the room filled with silence and respect… while converting itself to one voice… “I pledge allegiance… to the flag”
A promise needing to be embraced and withheld forever…

Martin Luther King once said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

Dearest injustice…
Why must you cause aggression to our own species?
And treat people like slavery still exists…
Eviscerating humanity with dehumanization and slander… just for possessing views detached from the norm and wearing a color other than white on our back every day…

We fight civil wars against ourselves…
The same team… divided in half… being torn apart by our default qualities… only to end the argument with violence, destruction, and brutality
But that’s not a good enough reason to upset a population…
What ever happened to uniting us like a rainbow?

Covered in a hidden blanket of segregation, humanity is regressing through the evils of racism and "different” people being an illness to society…
And as much as we want to see life as a positive space flowing radiantly with energy all the time, take a moment and look through the lens of truth…
No matter how cloudy and dark, there will always be a glimmer of light…

We as a race split like the changing of seasons… white vs black… Jewish vs Christians, male vs female… yet we are human… a group of mammals with feelings,
And I wish that wasn’t so fucking hard for us to realize…

Statistics say how women and minorities are viewed as less than “the standard man” in society’s initiations and documents…
Did you know women weren’t allowed to vote in the US until 1920? On top of that, they still have to cover parts of their body (and in some countries their entire body), make at least 20% less than men for the same job, and are even subject to sexual exploitation in some countries…
If your skin looked of dark chocolate, 100% of you couldn’t even vote until 1965… even worse, you had to sit in the back of the bus, receive less quality services and amenities, and were treated as a second class citizen in the same country…
They and other minorities are forced to begin the race from behind because of how they were born…

The prayer continues… “And to the republic… for which it stands… one nation… under God… indivisible”… INDIVISIBLE
We are HUMAN goddamnit!
We are ONE PEOPLE!

Why can’t we just work together instead of hiding in a vile of selfishness, which is used to poison our precious people and flaw our decision-making?

Can we PLEASE start a movement where people extend a hand to help one another and do it without hesitation?
Really, let’s do it!
If you want to make the world a better place, jump on the bandwagon and let’s do it!

Oh injustice…
Let’s dissipate the darkness, shine the light towards the existing beauty, and unite to play same team!
You shall be vanquished like Mario defeating Bowser for the very last time in world 8…

The prayer concludes in recitation behind several voices… “with liberty and justice for all…”


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