Severed Silence

Melting Pot

They call us the "Great American Melting Pot"

Millions of cultures and ethnicities compiled into one giant stew that we call America

But through all the stirring people are losing the traits that tie us all together

Self worth and pride and empathy and generosity and respect

We draw lines between culture

See the skin before the eyes

We decide things based on what we see first, the cover of someone's face

If every personality was a different color of skin, we would see the color before the contents

Yet that outside makes us forget that there's something much more valuable inside

In a safe, we store good things, but the outside has cold eyes and is unforgiving

Borders are becoming unbreachable and uncrossable barriers

Making us lose the spared bit of compassion we have stored in the back of our hearts

Unity is the missing trait, the piece we look for and we try to fill the hole but nothing ever fits perfectly

So instead of a melting pot let us be a body

Every bone different

Every nail and piece of skin

But of the same DNA

Separated not by our type but by our talents

A body working with and for each other as opposed to against

Never the same once one part is removed or broken

Beauty found in a different part of every piece

And true unity, the conquering trait

A place we can all be proud of, where we all work

And we are all one