Today’s writing prompt, or one three years ago depending on when you’re reading this, inspired me to think about the ways that we humans are so unaware of our impact. How we look at things only one way, when there is at least one more way they can be viewed. How our word comes fromContinueContinue reading “Double Edged Swords”
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Why?
Why do I keep fighting back?Using this puny voice in a world gone mad.Saying good things over and over againto a world so damaged that the existenceof goodness has become hard to credit.Believers believe despite all evidenceto the contrary.We also believe and we know that our evidence is worth believing in.Innocents and animals deserve safetyContinueContinue reading “Why?”
The Rules
There are rules you know!Depending on where we’re fromWe have to hate each otherNothing else is possibleOr sensibleDepending on our skin colourThere are rules that we must followJudgements to be madeAn entire shade placed in one categoryOf right or wrongDepending on our body structureWe must be one thing or the otherNothing else is rightNo authenticContinueContinue reading “The Rules”
Three Things – Better Than
The need to be ‘better than’ arises from fear of not being good enough. Even billionaires suffer from it, as witnessed with Musk and Zuckerberg. Talking about a cage fight because apparently being wildly rich and successful isn’t enough, there has to be more. In this world we judge by race, by skin colour, by gender, byContinueContinue reading “Three Things – Better Than”
You Tell Me
You tell me I don’t like you because of your colourYet I’m lonely and would welcome any friendYou may be the person who can help me through thisThe one that makes me laugh when I can’t think anymoreThe person who can see the wood for the treesAnd shine a light back into my lifeYou tellContinueContinue reading “You Tell Me”
Love Without Limits
In a time without endWhen there is love without limitsHumanity will finally evolveWe cannot evolve through MoneyIntelligenceWarWe can only evolve when money doesn’t define usOur thoughts are not more important than our emotionsAnd war no longer existsNo matter how clever humanity may think it isWe are not clever when we hurt othersWe are not powerfulContinueContinue reading “Love Without Limits”
Deb Hawken - Amorah 