I’ve been wondering what to write about for my first blog post and decided to share a poem I found that I wrote a while ago. It’s not the best but I thought the topic was pretty interesting.
To Humanity
People repeat days of their unvarying lives
Ages and ages of following time
And never once do they stop to look and see
How humanity has came to be
The world is separated into two gaps
Where you’re put depends on your social class
There’s the people across the world
Not having anything to eat
With water that’s hard to clean
Living life like an obstacle to defeat
While the others get to live carefree
Having the luxury to complain about pointless things
And wanting everything that the world can bring
Material objects keep them complete
And their minds are filled with nothing but greed
Walking past the struggling people as if there’s nothing to see
Pretending there’s no such thing as people in need
The two gaps never came together
No one ever thought of sharing what they own
But it doesn’t matter whether you’re rich or poor
Everyone is born to feel greed
It’s a question we all naturally ask
“What is in it for me?”
We all were born different and have our own opinions
It’s what makes us unique
And it splits us into even more gaps
All put in order from best to least
People are filled with oceans of hate
Swimming higher to feel superiority
Leaving the others on the ocean floor
Suffering a horrible, unforgivable fate
Why must people discriminate against someone because their race?
We’re all human at the end of the day
And people hate others because of their religion
When all religions are okay
No religion preaches violence and loathing
So why must people think that way?
We put others down just to feel validation about ourselves
We are all the same
Due to this, people have started countless wars
And looking back, it was all for nothing
What was it all for?
Humans are fragile and vulnerable
And they sacrificed themselves not to save others
But instead to kill
War did not bring any good into the world
It just had the winner’s pride shortly fulfilled
Then the cycle repeats again and again
With more pain and hurt that comes in
Why can’t people ever learn?
They suffer endlessly from war yet
War never gives anything good in return
We all walk on the same ground
And live under the same sky
We all grow old as the years pass
And in the end, we all die
The similarities are endless
So why don't we get along?
And live in a world where we share our possessions
Not feeling the need to have it all
A world where we admit our faults
And apologize for what we did wrong
A world we don’t start conflict but instead
Listen to other sides of the story
And a world where we unite as one
No individual wanting all the glory
And have a world full of happiness
With no sight of selfishness
No such thing as hate
And everyone feeling like they belong…
Is it too late for things to be like that?
Has humanity slipped out of our grips?
Can we all change the world as a whole
And find out why things are like this?
We instantly point our fingers to society
Saying it’s the reason why the world is this way
We say it’s where all our problems have been compelled
Yet fail to realize that
We are society ourselves