The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within

The racial divide
The color-creed pride
Poisonous seed
Threatens to erase
The human race
From earth’s face.

Civilization has failed to forge
The gaping, gnawing gorge
Of thousands of complexes
That has caused mass murders
With vicious, venomous weapons
Wreaking terror on innocent victims.

Are we on to let class-color-creed differences
Further erode the cultural health of future generations?
Can’t we cross the barriers of ineffective “silence”?
And go beyond wasteful, cowardly  “compassion”?
Must we wait till the deluge of hate, the futile vengeance
Destroy our own home and the hard-earned harmony?

Time we shed the pretence
Give up partiality and prejudice.
Time we gave up indifference
And fight the tenacious odds
Of racism, religious extremism
And tribal individualism.

Let us resolve to conquer
Inequalities and injustice
Let’s be like Mother Nature
That favors all
Loves all.