All My Soul

Humanity Poem

There are People all around
But how many do we notice?
Each with their own story
Every one with different feelings and emotions
But we are all people
Humanity
Children of a God who created us in his image

But somehow we struggle
We struggle to understand that
The girl in the back corner
The quiet one
Keeping her head down
Making no sound
May be screaming inside
Screaming and hoping someone can see through the mask
Reach through and break the surface
Of those silent, murky waters she hides beneath

And the boy on the front row
He may be "The loud one"
But that's just an illusion
He is hiding hard times
Inside he is dying
Because home isn't as easy as school
And mistakes can't be redone like those assignments
he's up late every night taking care of his little sister
Because momma hasn't come home yet
And daddy hasn't been around for years

There are people we call goth
But that's just a label
Blacks and blues tattooed all over
But blacks and blues do not identify
Blacks and blues don't tell who we are.

My skin is white but I am not.
No
My skin is fire
And as I breathe I breathe out music
I am green as new life in the spring
And yellow like those first rays of sun kissing the horizon.
I can be lots of colours

But I am love
Love is every colour
Because that what we were sent here to learn
Love is life
And god loves us
And We are humanity

But why can't life be a poem?
Because in a poem,
The colour of my skin doesn't matter
When compared with the colour of my words
And the impact they have on those around to hear them.

People twist the good in this world
Woe unto him that put evil for good
And good for evil
And woe unto the liar
But to some degree aren't we all liars?
We are born into this world the same.
But how we are taught is what we grow up
to become.
You cannot blame others for their actions when that is all they know.
And society sets limits
And builds cages
And dictates who we are
But society is wrong

The one running in the streets with a gun
He believes he's found a family
He justifies taking lives, brave in the dark
Hidden by shadows
Still a coward as the sun rises
But he doesn't know better
He was brought up in a broken home
With a broken family and nowhere to go

The one still in school with the books and the rules
She kills herself to be something she is not
Because she has been told that
To be anything in life you have to achieve greatness
And never mind your dreams they can wait a while
And maybe she'll never leave her hometown
Putting off all those dreams
Leaving them to be eaten through by moths and covered in cobwebs and crumble to dust
She did what she was told
She's a good kid right?
Right?
But the stress got to be too much
And when she jumps...

But she was still a good student
And an obedient daughter
And a good girl
Who had a life ahead of her
Right?

There are people all around
Their own stories
Their own lives
Different stories
Different lives
We have to understand that
People are different

Some forget that empathy exists for a reason
How do you truly love someone if you can't see through their eyes?

I am not the blonde of my hair
Nor the White of my skin
And she is not the darkened scars on her wrist
And he is not the purple around his eyes.
No.
Colours on the outside are pointless.

Because we are all
Beloved children of an all powerful god
Who created us in his image
Created us equal
Created us to love each other

Because what makes us human?
Love makes life
And we live
To have love
Humanity
-By Me-