Dear Humans of This World
An unstructured poem on prejudice, discrimination, and hate.
I am not less than you,
Or more than you.
I am a human (such a beautiful thing),
Just like you (yes, you are beautiful).
Yet I am unlike you,
For my normal is not your normal.
My likes are not necessary your likes.
My age, gender, ethnicity are mine and yours are yours.
Your skin tone, your stance on topics, your beliefs that you have chosen are yours and mine are mine.
They don’t have to be the same and that’s okay. It ought to be okay- not something that garners hate or rudeness or utter distaste.
Because that happens sometimes and when it does it hurts- to be judged based on things I can’t control, like the shade of my skin, how I look, where I am from. I should not be judged on things I choose either, like what I believe, or what I wish to become and do.
That’s what makes us unique.
Yet, some see it as a disease, a plague-ridden thing.
Why?
Because I am different?
Different is what we humans are; different from one another, yet similar to one another too.
Because we are human- with blood, flesh and thoughts of our own.
Because we have desires, goals and ideas.
Judging one another is not in our place.
What is in our place, is to work on ourselves, to accept people into our worlds and spread happiness, joy, peace and love.
And lots of it.
Is that too much to ask?
Is it too much to smile, to share, to be a sibling to another?
Because some resort to not including others, hurting others and isolating others.
Surely, that is more work, more hate, more of the things this world needs not.
Surely, we can bring light into the darkness. Hope into the bleakness. Happiness into this world. Into another's life.
Ergo, I ask for you to stop all your judging and start loving more. Giving more. Living more. And let others do the same too.
Thank you to all the people who already do.
x
Mariah Thank you for all the hugs, happiness and kindness you always give me.
Sophia Joffrin My activist for a better future- thank you for always supporting me and inspiring me to write this piece- here’s to more peace, acceptance and books.
Allie Thank you for helping me in ways you don’t realize and for motivating me every single day. Your poems are wonderful and so very inspiring.
Alyshah M Thank you for all the smiles and support you have bestowed and continue to bestow onto me.
Filza Chaudhry Thank you for all your wonderful pieces- I wish to write beautiful poems, just like yours.
Much love, peace and happiness~ a fellow human- Ruqayyah x
