What Kind of World do You Want to Live in?

Black and white, brown and orange

Red and yellow, beige

All the many colors of flowers, birds, beasts, fish

Only problematic with people

Wearing different types or amounts

Of melanin or colors or coming from

Cultures with a variety of skin tones

Black and brown people, shot and killed while

Walking or jogging down the street

Sleeping in their beds

Playing with toys in a park

Selling cigarettes or

Breathing

White people insurrect, commit sedition

Maim and kill police officers, those prideful boys

Those white boys and girls stuck in adolescence

So angry at leaders who tell them what they can or cannot do

Scared they are losing power, stabbing and killing

Without being silenced by law enforcement

When wreaking havoc, committing crimes, causing death

Treated so differently than black and brown people

Supermarket gunmen

Church and synagogue gunmen

School and theater gunmen

All gun Men

What about guns, the right to have them

Carry them openly with or without a permit

Easier to buy and use guns than to drive a car with a license

What kind of world is that?

When white men cannot control their sexual desires and needs

And blame it on a different race or a different gender

Killing Asian women to stop their own temptations and pain

All in the name of Jesus Christ, using the devil

As one’s defense while breaking the laws of the Bible

All the many colors of flowers, birds, beasts, and fish

Most do not kill or harm each other for sport, but may

Out of fear and while looking for new spaces, or when

Protecting their young, or feeding their families

Yes, all of Mother Nature gets born, needs to eat and drink

Needs a nest or a place to be, and struggles at times to share

Children who do not fall into our rigid binary categories

Man and woman and nothing in between

When for so many thousands of years some people have not

Fit into those labels, do not feel the gender they are told they are

So, shut those kids out of sports, Tennesssee, making them suffer

Even more by giving them few rights, putting them at risk

For more destruction and isolation just because they are different

Immigration

Voter Restriction

(No) Gun Regulation

Culture Cancellation

What about Salvation?

What kind of world do we live in?

Do we want public health and public safety?

See all of the many colors and differences

See how we each treat them

What kind of world do you want to live in?

What kind of world do you want to see?