My son came to me this evening after visiting at a friends house and asked me why his friends Dad was speaking about people from other countries like they weren't real people. This was his first real insight into racism and hate and I was floored trying to explain to him why some people think as they do.
Hearing the hurt and confusion in his voice compelled me to sit down and throw out some thoughts. This piece is jerky and doesn't flow well I know, but in my own confusion, it was the best I could muster up and it needed an outlet...
A Dying Breed
So far removed from humanity.
What have we become?
Bred, born and cultivated.
Spending machines, soldiers.
Tears spill...anger rages.
For Possessions.
For Glory. For Power.
Yet a life, what's a life?
Expendable...squash them!
Only the strong survive.
Who's fate are we fulfilling?
When personal value is determined
by race, geography and net worth.
Why are we living?
ARE we living?
Or are we dying....
Slowly, painfully deteriorating.
Empathy lost, Compassion fading.
Love and Loyalty, obsolete.
The traits that made us
distinctly human, fading.
As we morph and evolve,
adapt to our surroundings.
The last of our kind.
How do we teach our children
Of values already slipping
through our fingers?
How do we shelter them
from the hypocrisy of the world?
How do we raise leaders
in a world already in shambles?
and how do we find our way back
from a hell we have created?
How do I look into my child's eyes
and honestly say...
Everything will be ok.
Please somebody, tell me how.
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